Nikky Finney, Ross Gay, and Adrian Matejka on Cataloging Time with Artifacts and Heartbeats

This week, Poetry’s new editor, Adrian Matejka, sits down with Nikky Finney and Ross Gay for a joy-filled conversation about time and how we catalogue it with artifacts, heartbeats, and, of course, poems.

 

Nikky Finney was born by the sea in South Carolina and raised during the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts Movements, and we’ll hear from her most recent collection, Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry. Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1974, and we’ll hear from his new collection of essays, Inciting Joy. Both Finney and Gay are featured in the October 2022 issue of Poetry, which marks the magazine’s 110th anniversary.