Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Nikky Finney
Born: August 26, 1957 (age 67)
Bio: Nikky Finney is an American poet. She was the Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky for twenty years. In 2013, she accepted a position at the University of South Carolina as the John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair in Southern Letters and Literature.
Known for:
- Head Off & Split (2011)
- The world is round (2003)
- Rice: Poems (1995)
- Heartwood (1997)
- On wings made of gauze (1985)