Tagged: nikky finney

Arts and Humanities
11:15 am
Wed November 14, 2012

Tonight: Watch the National Book Awards

The National Book Award ceremony is tonight, and if you didn't score tickets to this year's revamped, glammed-up awards dinner in New York's Cipriani Wall Street, where you can rub elbows with Gen X darling actress/author Molly Ringwald and McSweeney's founder (and fiction nominee) Dave Eggers, the event will be live-streamed. The action starts at 9 p.m.

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Arts and Humanities
6:00 am
Mon April 30, 2012

National Book Award Winner Reads at 21C

Photo of poet Nikky Finney
Credit Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Poet Nikky Finney

Lexington poet Nikky Finney has been on the road, visiting 20 cities in three months. It’s her second tour for “Head Off & Split,” her fourth collection of poems that won the National Book Award last fall.

Finney will read in Louisville tonight at 21C Museum Hotel.

Throughout her tour, Finney says she’s heard from people who saw her powerful acceptance speech during the November awards broadcast and went wild.

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