Ama Codjoe

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Ama Codjoe
NationalityAmerican
Alma materOhio State University
GenrePoetry

Ama Codjoe is an American social justice activist, dancer and a Pushcart-nominated poet. [1] [2]

She was a Cave Canem fellow, [3] a Callaloo Writers Workshop fellow, [4] and one of Black Bottom’s Tuesday Poets. [5] Codjoe received the Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellowship from New York University and is the former Associate Director of Professional Development for the DreamYard Art Center. [6] [7]

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