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This event is open to the public and a donation is required for entry. This is a virtual event via Crowdcast and will take place at 6:00 PM EST.
Loyalty will welcome Ama Codjoe and Ross Gay to celebrate Bluest Nude: Poems! This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast. You can donate along with your registration. Donations will go to Keep Our Clinics. There will be an option to purchase the book during the event.
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.