The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10128
United States
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Join for readings by Ama Codjoe and Carl Phillips, two powerfully original voices in American poetry as they read from their new books — vital poems that find revelation in the intersections between language, history, and desire.
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.