NEW YORK -- Nikky Finney has won the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 lifetime achievement honor presented by the Academy of American Poets. Judges praised Finney, known for such collections as “Head Off & Split” and “Rice,” for her “fierce moral conviction” and as a bard “for the African diaspora.”Finney's prize was among dozens announced Wednesday by the poets academy, with money exceeding $1.2 million.