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The 2022 Words Without Borders Virtual Gala will feature some of the world's leading literary voices Isabel Allende, Merve Emre, Lyuba Yakimchuk, and more!
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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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