![]() ![]() ![]() Ruth Nicole Brown is at her best when disciplinary norms are disrupted in favor of creating ideas that swing.īrown’s research documents and analyzes Black girls’ lived experiences and the practical ways they make Black girlhood with those who love them. Her new collection of poems, Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry, was released in 2020 from TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press.ĭr. She is the author of On Wings Made of Gauze Rice The World Is Round and Head Off & Split, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2011. Nikky Finney was born by the sea in South Carolina and raised during the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts Movements. Nikky Finney and Ruth Nicole Brown (African American Studies, Michigan State University and Founder, Saving Our Lives, Hearing Our Truths - SOLHOT) in conversation, with Janice Harrington (Creative Writing, Department of English) moderating. ![]()
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