Well, she did it. Nikky Finney was a big winner yesterday at the National Book Award ceremony. I've had a chance to read and re-read her volume this year. And blog about it. I was really pleased to see it gain this kind of national recognition.
Some of the coverage
• How Nikky Finney Found Her Own Path To Poetry NPR
• Poet Nikky Finney Dazzles the National Book Awards Time
• Q & A with Nikky Finney Kentucky Kernel
• NBA Winners Going Back to Press Publishers Weekly
• Book Award Winners Jesmyn Ward, Nikky Finney Discuss Race & Lit. Huffington Post
• Poet Nikky Finney hopes prestigious award illuminates arts' role in Kentucky LexGo
• UK says hats off to poet: Colleagues laud Finney for national award Kentucky Kernel
• Reactions From the National Book Award Winners Wall Street Journal blog
• Kentucky poet Nikky Finney wins National Book Award Courier Journal
• Nikky Finney wins National Book Award for poetry Chicago Tribune
• 2011 National Book Award Finalist, Poetry: Nikky Finney National Book Award
• Professor wins National Book Award for Poetry Kentucky Kernel
• S.C. native, Nikki Finney, wins National Book Award The State (South Carolina)
• Lexington poet wins National Book Award LexGo
• Ward, Finney Are Among 2011 National Book Award Winners PBS
• National Book Awards Finalists Reading at The New School Electric Literature
• UK Perspectives Talk to Creative Writing Professor Nikky Finney UK News
• Nikki Finney's poetry nomination a triumph Lexington Herald-Leader
Related content: A Notebook on the work of Nikky Finney
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