Jun
22
11:00pm
Warmer Welcomes: A CAAPP Summer Reading ft. Richard Hamilton & Joy Priest
By CAAPP
(60 minutes)
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Please join us virtually for an evening poetry reading centering two wonderful poets who've just made their way to Pittsburgh.
Richard Hamilton has been named the incoming CAAPP Creative Writing Fellow, and Joy Priest will be joining as an Assistant Professor of African American / African Diasporic Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh and as CAAPP's CCPP (Curator of Community Programs & Praxis) this Fall.
Come celebrate with us and help us give a warm summer welcome to two brilliant incoming poets to Pittsburgh & CAAPP.
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Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology, forthcoming from Sarabande June 20. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, The Nation, Kenyon Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books among others. Beginning Fall 2023 she will be an Assistant Professor of African American / African Diasporic Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh and the Curator of Community Programs & Praxis at the Center for African American Poetry & Poetics.
Richard Hamilton was born in 1975 and grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey and Columbus, Georgia. Richard is the author of Rest of US published by ReCenter Press (2021) in Philadelphia. They are the recipient of fellowships and support from the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson City, Vermont and the Cave Canem Foundation in Brooklyn, NY. Richard holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Alabama. Beginning in Fall 2023 will be CAAPP's 2023-2025 Creative Writing Fellow.
About CAAPP—
Founded in 2016, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics is a creative think tank for African American and African diasporic poetries and poetics. Our mission is to highlight, promote, and share the work of African American and African diasporic poets and to pollinate cross-disciplinary conversation and collaboration. Our programming aims to present exciting live poetry and conversation, contextualize the meaning of that work, and archive it for future generations.
We are a space for innovative collaboration between writers, scholars, and other artists thinking through poetics as a unique and contemporary movement. In its effort to highlight, promote, archive, research, and generally advance the practices and epistemologies of African American and African diasporic poetry and poetics, CAAPP supports individual writers, artists, scholars, and others nationally and at a range of career stages and academic ranks. We also prioritize providing opportunities for poets and artists outside of academia, in the Pittsburgh community and beyond.
The Center emerged in a 2015 brainstorming session between poets Dawn Lundy Martin, Terrance Hayes, and Yona Harvey. This meeting was initiated by English Department Chair and Professor Don Bialostosky, who wanted to discuss how the department might best celebrate the presence of three acclaimed African American poets on its faculty. In short, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics was brought into being through true collaboration, an approach now at the heart of CAAPP’s philosophy and work.
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