Nikky

My evening is now planned and I can’t wait to return to my room, curled up to participate in Nikky Finney’s absolutely wonderful book.

“The Afterbirth” : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

"Nikky," continued Prince Ferdinand William Otto, stirring his tea,

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Your 'Nikky' and I seem most surprisingly to have the same tastes -- about various things. "

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Nikky Hilton was in attendance at the cozy party, where there enough party-goers to fill the space but not too many to feel over packed.

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Because she's the one who made Nikky crazy enough to look for rope, find the pills.

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Nikky Finney listens and waits and what comes is wound, wonder, sharp.

“The Afterbirth” : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Nikky June 11, 2009 at 9:11 pm how long are they going to be in disney world? throughout august i hope!

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It is passages like these that make it hard for me to, as Nikky Finney would say, “come to the page lightly” or casually, because you realize that as poet, this is what you must somehow capture.

Finding Poems : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Those poems, and the poems of poets I admire like Nikky Finney, Elizabeth Alexander, Lorna Goodison and Martin Espada, to name just two, are engaged in this business of resisting the erasure of the bodies, imaginations, intelligences and emotions of black and brown people from the memory of the past.

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But there is something affirming about coming to poetry with what Nikky Finney calls reverence — she says, “Do not come to the page lightly” when she is admonishing poets.

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