Tag Archives: Nikky Finney

SPOTLIGHT ON POET MONIFA LEMONS BY OLIVIA MORRIS

by Jasper Posted on June 5, 2016

“When I think about where I was, it was just me, and my daughter, and a hundred flyers,” says Monifa Lemons, co-founder and director of The Watering Hole, a South Carolina-based poetry collective dedicated to poets of color. When she … Continue reading →

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Review — A Woman with Keys: Nikky Finney’s Rice by Jonathan Butler

by Jasper Posted on August 17, 2013

  Nikky Finney’s Rice, originally published in 1995 but available in a new edition from TriQuarterly Books, is literature performing  the functions of oral culture: the transmission of stories, legends, warnings, and a sense of history and community. Finney’s topics … Continue reading →

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First Lines — an invitation from Jasper

by Jasper Posted on February 24, 2013

“As she sat stunned in her car on Charleston’s rickety old John P. Grace Memorial Bridge, trapped precariously 150 feet above the swift-moving waters of the Cooper River, …” ~ “When you’re a boy growing up in rural South Carolina, … Continue reading →

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