The Harvard Department of English presents a Reading and Q&A with Poets Ama Codjoe, author Bluest Nude and winner of the Academy of American Poets 2023 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; and Victoria Adukwei Bulley, author of Quiet, which was awarded the 2023 Folio Prize for poetry. Join us at 7:00pm on Wednesday, February 7th in the Thompson Room in the Barker Center (12 Quincy St, Cambridge).
Ama Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude (Milk-weed Editions, 2022), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and finalist for both the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry and the Paterson Poetry Prize, and Blood of the Air (Northwestern University Press, 2020), winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. She has been awarded support organizations including Bogliasco, Cave Canem, Robert Rauschenberg, and Saltonstall foundations as well as from Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Hedgebrook, Yaddo, and MacDowell. Her poems have three times appeared in the Best American Poetry series. Among other honors, Codjoe has received fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the New York State Council/New York Foundation of the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation. In 2023, Codjoe was appointed as the second Poet-in Residence at the Guggenheim Museum. She is the winner of a 2023 Whiting Award.
Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer, and artist whose work has appeared widely in publications including the London Review of Books, LitHub, and The Atlantic. She is the winner of an Eric Gregory Award, and her critically acclaimed debut poetry book, Quiet, won the Folio Prize for Poetry, the John Pollard International Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Quiet is published by Faber in the UK and in North America by Alfred A. Knopf.