Nikky Finney, Professor of Creative Writing and Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina and 2011 winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, was commissioned to create new work in response to photographs from the Southbound project. Finney wrote four new poems that she will read, along with readings of other work. Read Finney's Southbound poems here: southboundproject.org/read/poems Nikky Finney was born in South Carolina, within listening distance of the sea. A child of activists, she came of…