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August 26, 2014

August 26, 1957

Nikky Finney (August 26, 1957) has among other honors for her poetry and career as an artist, received the editorship of the Palmetto Poetry Series, which is associated with the University of South Carolina Press. This picture, in Publisher's Weekly, accompanied the announcement.





She is already on the faculty at the University of South Carolina as the John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair in Southern Letters and Literature. Nikky Finney's fourth collection of poetry, 
Head Off & Split (2011) won the National Book Award for Poetry. 

And here are a few lines excerpted from "Brown Country" one of her poems in 

Rice: Poems (1995)

...
how come ain't no sad country songs
about indians being holocausted
...
I'm no Dolly...
but I sho am country
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]
And when I'm gone
please somebody feed the cat
and in return I'll make my voice
low country quiver real good

.....


The lines I highlighted don't do justice to this long poem about a black woman who likes country music. 

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