Nikky's Hands with ink

Spring 2024

February 8
Furious Flower Presents Nikky Finney, Anastacia-Reneé, and Malika Booker
AWP Conference
Kansas City, KS
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February 22
Canon, Canyon, Cannon at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, MA
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March 7
Aliveness and The Black Poem
A Conversation with Tracy K. Smith & Kevin Quashie
Rutgers University, Newark
Newark, NJ

June 11 – June 17
Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference
Bread Loaf Campus of Middlebury College
Ripton, VT
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Past Events

2023

September 22
Black Women's Health Imperative (BWHI)
40th Homecoming
Atlanta, GA
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September 28
Schomburg Center & National Book Foundation Presents: Poetics of the Archive
Nikky Finney & Robin Coste Lewis in Conversation with Jacqueline Woodson
New York, NY
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November 11
Griot & Grey Owl Conference
Durham, NC
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December 1
Presentation for Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
University of Michigan Museum of Art
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2022

February 20
The Penn Center
St. Helena, Island, SC

February 21
*What Poetry Saves
University of Minnesota
Virtual Event

February 28
Lewis & Clark College
Portland, OR
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March 10
Concordia College Celebrates the National Book Awards
Concordia College
Moorhead, MN
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March 24 & 25
Big Ears Festival
Knoxville, TN
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March 30
*16th National Black Writers Conference
Opening Event, Center for Black Literature
Virtual Event
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April 16
At War With Ourselves
with Kronos Quartet
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
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April 23
Reading & Receipt of the Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature
Mercer University
Macon, GA

May 7 & 8
At War With Ourselves
with Kronos Quartet
San Francisco Jazz Center
San Francisco, CA
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August 6
Lindy Hopping and Poetry, Craft Class with Nikky Finney
Kweli Journal, Virtual Event
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October 20 - 24
Dodge Poetry Festival
Morristown, NJ
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2021

January 15
Pacific University MFA Program
Virtual Event / More information

January 27
Induction into the Kentucky Great Writers Hall of Fame
Carnegie Center
Virtual Event / More information

March 5
University of Minnesota
Virtual Event / More information

March 20
CityLit Festival Reimagined
CityLit Project in partnership with Enoch Pratt Free Library
Virtual Event / More information

March 25
Clemson Literary Festival Headliner
Virtual Event / More information

March 30
Reading for Spelman College
Virtual Event / More information [PDF]

April 8
Reading for North Carolina State University
Virtual Event

May 1
Poetry and the Power of Women of Color Knowledge Production
Panel for Meridians 20th Anniversary Celebration
Virtual Event

May 14
Reading with Arisa White
Academy of American Poets
Virtual Event

June 22
Minnesota Northwoods Conference Keynote Speaker
Virtual Event

October 6
An Evening with Nikky Finney
Windgate Museum of Art, Hendrix College
WMA’s fall exhibition, Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South
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October 14
Chancellor Conversations: Poetry & Social Change
Join Academy of American Poets Chancellors Natalie Diaz, Nikky Finney, Joy Harjo, Tracy K. Smith, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Executive Director Kyle Dacuyan, and award-winning author Eve L. Ewing for a virtual conversation on the unique role that poetry plays in civic dialogue and social change.
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October 18
Hotbeds: Insurgent Design for Collaborative Transformation
University of Minnesota / Voice, Art, & Community Series
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November 7
Performance with the Kronos Quartet
At War With Ourselves —  400 Years of You
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November 19 - 20
Performance with Kronos Quartet
At War With Ourselves - 400 Years of You with Inversion Ensemble
World Premiere in Austin, TX
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2020

February 11 & 12
Aiken-Taylor Award Events
Sewanee, TN
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February 19
She Persisted: Women of Letters and the American South
The Gibbes Museum of Art
Charleston, SC
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February 25
2020 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence Reading
Chapel Hill, NC
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July 18
Kweli International Literary Festival:
Nikky Finney on Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry with Crystal Wilkinson
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/nikky-finney-on-love

August 31
Aims of Education Address
Virginia Tech University
Virtual Event

September 13
Soul Talk at the Denton Black Film Festival
Virtual Event

September 15
Reading with Nandi Comer
Northwestern University Press
Virtual Event
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September 17
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Virtual Event
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October 7
Gaines Center for Humanities Reading
University of Kentucky
Virtual Event
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October 8
Indiana University Reading
Virtual Event
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October 9
Southern Festival of Books
Virtual Event
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October 14
Fall Literary Festival Online
University of South Carolina
Virtual Event
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October 20
Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth
Virtual Event
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October 22 - November 1
Dodge Poetry Festival
Morristown, NJ
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October 29
Chicago State University
Virtual Event

November 15 - 20
Miami Book Fair
Virtual Events
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November 16
Lewis & Clark College
Virtual Event