15th Annual Robert Smalls Lecture Series
Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
USC Moore School of Business, Room 005
Guest speaker:  Nikky Finney

A child of activists, Nikky Finney, came of age during the civil rights and Black Arts Movements. At Talladega College, nurtured by Hale Woodruff's Amistad murals, Finney began to understand the powerful synergy between art and history. Finney has authored four books of poetry: Head Off & Split (20100); The World Is Round (2003); Rice (1995); and On Wings Made of Gauze (1985). Professor of English and creative writing at the Univeristy of Kentucky, Finney also authored Heartwood (1997), edited The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007), and co-founded the Affrilachian Poets. Finney's fourth book of Poetry, Head Off & Split was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for poetry.

A book signing will follow the lecture.
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