Poetry Reading: D.M. Aderibigbe, 82ND DIVISION

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The poems in Aderibigbe's acclaimed collection - 82ND DIVISION - are written in various forms including the villanelle, sonnet, blues poem, duplex, ode, and dramatic monologue, among many others, are collectively a love song to the author’s native Nigeria. Beyond its thematic unity, lustrous language, and formal virtuosity, this sparkling collection is tied together by Aderibigbe’s graceful exploration of the humanity of the people, landscape, and histories that populate the book’s pages.

D.M. Aderibigbe was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. He is the author of How the End First Showed, winner of 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, Art Omi/Ledig House, Ucross Foundation, Jentel Foundation, and Boston University. His poems have appeared in Tatu: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set, The Atlantic, The Nation, Ploughshares, the Southern Review, and New England Review, among others. He is currently Senior Fellow in Ethics & Writing in the Written Arts Program at Bard College.

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