Drinking Gourd Chapbook Launch
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
An ASL interpreter will be present
Free admission, register in advance here
At 30 minutes before event start, guests with Eventbrite tickets will have priority entry to the performance space on a first-come, first-served basis. At 15 minutes prior to event start, the performance space is open to all guests. Seating capacity is limited. Eventbrite reservations do not guarantee entry or reserved seating.
Celebrate Ama Codjoe, winner of the 2020 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize, with the launch of her chapbook Blood of the Air, which includes an introduction by Ed Roberson. Codjoe’s other honors include a 2019 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2017 Rona Jaffe Writers' Award. She lives in New York City.
Cosponsored with the Poetry & Poetics Colloquium at Northwestern University