Brooklyn Poets
144 Montague St
Brooklyn Heights, NY 11201
United States
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Join Books are Magic at Brooklyn Poets for a night of poetry and friendship as Ama Codjoe presents Bluest Nude with Aracelis Girmay, Zakia Henderson-Brown, Patrick Rosal, Nicole Sealey, Lyrae Van-Clief Stefanon, Michelle Whittaker, & Jenny Xi.
Ama Codjoe
Ama Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude. She is also the author of Blood of the Air, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her honors include a 2017 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, and a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship. Codjoe’s work has twice appeared in The Best American Poetry. She lives in New York City.
Ama Codjoe’s highly anticipated debut collection brings generous light to the inner dialogues of women as they bathe, create art, make and lose love. Each poem rises with the urgency of a fully awakened sensual life.