Kemi Alabi wins First Book Award from poets academy
4 hours ago Kemi Alabi, recipient of the First Book Award from the Academy of American Poets.
A Chicago-based writer and activist has received the First Book Award from the Academy of American Poets. Kemi Alabi s Against Heaven” is scheduled for publication in Spring 2022.
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Alabi, chosen for the honor by the acclaimed poet Claudia Rankine, will receive $5,000 and a six-week, all-expenses-paid residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbria, Italy. The academy will also purchase and distribute thousands of copies of Against Heaven.”
Rankine said in a statement Thursday that Against All Heaven” was a virtuosic and multi-layered exploration of black queer subjectivity.”
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Alabi, chosen for the honor by the acclaimed poet Claudia Rankine, will receive $5,000 and a six-week, all-expenses-paid residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center, an Umbrian 15th century castle in Italy. The academy will also purchase and distribute thousands of copies of “Against Heaven” to members of the Academy of American poets and will be featured in the American Poets magazine.
Rankine, author of Citizen: An American Lyric and Just Us: An American Conversation said in a statement Thursday that “Against All Heaven” was a virtuosic and multi-layered exploration of “black queer subjectivity.”
“At once sonic and disruptive, these poems pull together everything in a world where nothing is sacred,” she said. “In this energetic and brilliant debut, the thrust of the lyric dislodges all that is stuck and stagnant, creating new possibilities for utterance.”
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