1818 NORTH VERMONT AVE
Los Angeles, CA 90027
United States
This event is virtual via Crowdcast will take place in PST and is free and open to the public. RSVP here.
Join Ama Codjoe, Aleshea Harris, and Ashaki M. Jacksonin conversation around Ama’s debut collection, Bluest Nude.
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.