Center for African American Poetry & Poetics Presents: Nabila Lovelace

We’re excited to share a reading from the Center for African American Poetry & Poetics’ Dream Space Resident Nabila Lovelace. This reading concludes Nabila’s two-week residency cohosted by City of Asylum and CAAPP. In this program, Nabila will share the newly composed work that came out of her residency, as well as insights into her writing process and her residency experience.

Founded in 2016, CAAPP is a creative think tank for African American and African diasporic poetries and poetics. Their mission is to highlight, promote, and share the work of African American and African diasporic poets and to pollinate cross-disciplinary conversation and collaboration. They are a space for innovative collaboration between writers, scholars, and other artists thinking through poetics as a unique and contemporary movement. CAAPP supports individual writers, artists, scholars, and others nationally and at a range of career stages and academic ranks. They also prioritize providing opportunities for poets and artists outside of academia, in the Pittsburgh community and beyond.

You can purchase a copy of Nabila’s book, Sons of Achilles, at City of Asylum Bookstore.

About the Poet:

Nabila Lovelace is a first-generation Queens-born poet whose family is originally from Trinidad and Nigeria. The author of Sons of Achilles (YesYes Books, 2018), she lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

About Your Visit: 

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