To kick off National Poetry Month, we asked 2010 NBA Poetry Winner Terrance Hayes to share his thoughts on 2011 Winner Nikky Finney and her collection Head Off & Split. Hayes' essay begins, "I can remember first hearing Nikky Finney's 'The Condoleezza Suite' in 2006 at a reading for the Cave Canem Tenth Anniversary Reunion. As she read a poem in the voice of Condoleezza Rice's Ferragamo shoes, a kind of Sunday swoon echoed through the auditorium." To read the rest of Hayes' essay, visit Finney's page on our NBA Poetry Blog.
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