Career
Aderibigbe is the author of the debut poetry collection, How the End First Showed, which won the 2018 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, a Florida Book Award, and was a finalist for the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry and the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. The book also received praise and coverage from numerous publications, including The Washington Post , The Boston Globe , The New York Journal of Books, The Bay State Banner , Bostonia Magazine , Poetry Daily , The Hartford Courant , Africa in Words , The Stockholm Review of Literature , The Journal of Gender Studies among others. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] He is also the author of a poetry chapbook, In Praise of Our Absent Father, selected for the New Generation African Poets Series of the African Poetry Book Fund. [22] His first full-length manuscript, My Mothers' Songs and Other Similar Songs I Learnt, received a special mention in the 2015 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. [23] [24]
Aderibigbe's poems have appeared in the African American Review , Alaska Quarterly Review , New England Review, The Hudson Review , The Nation , Ninth Letter , Poetry Review , Sierra , Prairie Schooner , Shenandoah , and elsewhere, and has been featured on Verse Daily. [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35]
Aderibigbe has won several fellowships, residencies, and honors from the James Merrill House, Banff Center for the Arts, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Ucross Foundation, Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Walter E. Dakin Fellowship) at the University of the South, OMI International Arts Center, the Jentel Foundation, among others. [36] [37] [38] [39] [40]
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