Christopher Brean Murray is the author of Black Observatory, winner of the 2022 Jake Adam York Prize. He has received awards from the Academy of American Poets and Inprint Houston, and he served as online poetry editor of Gulf Coast.
Hello Milkweed readers! I’m Mary Austin Speaker, Milkweed’s Creative Director, and I was honored to talk with Ama Codjoe this week about her extraordinary first book, Bluest Nude, which is due out in September 2022.
Mary Austin Speaker: Bluest Nude is a powerful, vulnerable collection of poems that explores the practice of seeing and being seen as well as the ways we move through intimacy, memory, and art. Can you describe some of the central experiences that inspired Bluest Nude?
Ama Codjoe: In 2019, I attended the art exhibit, Posing Modernity: the Black Model from Manet…
Join Marilyn Hacker & Karthika Naïr at The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore in Paris for a reading from and conversation about their collaborative poetry collection, A Different Distance.
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.
The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is pleased to welcome poets Brian Tirney, Aria Aber, and Ari Banias for a live-stream reading and discussion on their new collections. This event is free and open to the public (signed copies of Rise and Float are available for sale through Midtown Scholar). Register here!
Join Milkweed Editions and I-ASC for the virtual launch of Hannah Emerson’s debut poetry collection The Kissing of Kissing. Register here!
