The Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and Autumn House Press present the Pittsburgh Book Launch for Jasmine Reid, winner of the 2024 CAAPP Book Prize, celebrating her debut collection Interlocutor Goddess at Kelly : Alloy Studios.

Jasmine will be in conversation with poet and performer Douglas Kearney, sharing their work and exploring their poetics. The event will conclude with a brief Q&A.

Join us here for the livestream of this evening of poetry, conversation, and celebration!

Jasmine Reid is a trans: Atlantic poet for the people. She is the author of Interlocutor Goddess, winner of the 2024 CAAPP Book Prize, selected by Aracelis Girmay, and Deus Ex Nigrum, winner of the 2018 Honeysuckle Press Chapbook Contest, selected by Danez Smith. An MFA graduate of Cornell University and recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, The Jerome Foundation, Poets House, and Jack Jones Literary Arts, her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Southern Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Indiana Review, Pinwheel, TriQuarterly, and Washington Square Review, among others. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated poet, Jasmine was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York, where she is an assistant professor at New York University.

Douglas Kearney has published eight books ranging from poetry to essays. In 2023, Optic Subwoof, a collection of his Bagley Wright lectures, won the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Prize for Poetry Criticism and the CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction. His seventh, Sho, (Wave Books) is a Griffin Poetry Prize and Minnesota Book Award winner. Kearney’s most recent collection, I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, was published with Wave Books in April 2025. Kearney is a Whiting Writers and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly awardee with residencies/fellowships including Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and The McKnight Foundation. He is a Samuel Russell Chair in the Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of English at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.

“In this processual, becoming shimmer of a text, Jasmine Reid writes a shapeful, theoretical work involved in the rigorous attending to emergent selves and the languages made in calling them into being. Her gorgeous grammars—at once demanding and disarming—are  the result of a language-making in the process of exceeding itself: ‘where blooms the common factor of [her] breaths.’”
—aracelis girmay, author of the black maria

Interlocutor Goddess Launch ft. Jasmine Reid & Douglas Kearney