D.M. Aderibigbe
Download MP3Happy National Poetry Month! Today, poet D.M. Aderibigbe joins me to talk about his new book, 82nd Division. D.M. Aderibigbe was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. Prior to 82nd Division, he published his first collection of poems, How the End First Showed, which won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. He has received fellowships and scholarships from the Mississippi Arts Commission, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the James Merrill House, Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center, and Boston University. His poems have appeared in Tatu: New-Generation African Poets, The Atlantic, The Nation, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and New England Review, among others. He teaches in the Written Arts Program as Senior Fellow in Ethics and Writing at Bard College.
Pick up a copy of 82nd Division here.
Pick up a copy of 82nd Division here.
Read more about Aderibigbe and 82nd Division here.
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Jason Gray
Jason Gray is the author of the poetry collections Radiation King and Photographing Eden. His poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Image, and elsewhere.
