[ Back to Main Page ] Nikky Finney at Know Book Store in Raleigh/Durham, NC, 1/24/03 RALEIGH/DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - On January 24th, 2003, 7:00 p.m., The Know Bookstore, 2520 Fayetteville Street, Durham, will feature the illustrious author/poet Nikky Finney as she reads from her newly published collection of poetry and prose, The World Is Round. Of this book, Walter Mosely says "The World Is Round opens all my doors and windows and airs me out with a cold and truthful wind." On the following day, January 25th, 4:00 p.m., Finney will read and sign books at Quail Ridge Books, 3522 Wade Avenue, Raleigh, which will feature three Big Drum Press writer-poets (Shirlette Ammons, Howard L. Craft, and R.C. Glenn) at an afternoon poetry reading, with a special guest appearance by Finney. On that evening, the Blue Coffee Company, 202 Corcoran Street in Durham, will present an evening with Nikky Finney as she reads from her new book at 8:00 p.m. This reading/signing is co-sponsored by SONG (Southerners on New Ground), an organization that seeks to build movement across the south for progressive social change by developing models for organizing that connect race, class, gender and sexual orientation. Nikky Finney – The author’s first collection of poems, On Wings Made of Gauze (William Morrow, Inc.), was published in 1985. Her second book, Rice (Sister Vision Press, 1995) is a collection of poems, stories, and photographs that won the PEN American Open Book Award in 1999. Finney is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky. For more information on Finney’s wonderful work, please visit her website at www.nikkyfinney.com. SONG (Southerners on New Ground) - the purpose of this organization is to build movement across the south for progressive social change by developing models for organizing that connect race, class, gender and sexual orientation. [ Back to Main Page ]