The world is round nikky finney7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() I don’t care what kind of house I live in, I don’t care how well I’m doing-I’m always thinking of human beings as people at war with each other, literally.īut I’m also the poet who understands that I grew up in a house of love. There was this racial violence that was happening around me, and then there was the Vietnam War. I was born and was raised in the South of this country, this republic, when it was on fire, when war was happening in the state I was born in and was happening in the country that I lived in. Nikky Finney: I am a poet of my time, Walter. They also discuss what she saw in the people marching into the Capitol on January 6th and the contrasts with what she saw in the Black Lives Matter protests. ![]() Nikky talks to Walter about the need she feels as an artist to speak the truth by addressing both the trauma and the love in her life. Nikky speaks with great thoughtfulness about the responsibilities of a working poet and of a teacher, and how she feels humbled by both those jobs. Poet Nikky Finney joins guest host Walter Mosley for a two-part discussion on Episode 151 of The Quarantine Tapes. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic. ![]() Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. ![]()
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