D.M. Aderibigbe was born in 1989 in Lagos, Nigeria. He holds a B.A in History and Strategic Studies from the University of Lagos. He’s the author of In Praise of Our Absent Father, selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the APBF New Generation African Poets Chapbook Series and is a recipient of 2015 honours from The Dickinson House and the Entrekin Foundation. His poems appear in African American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Normal School, Notre Dame Review, Poet Lore, RATTLE, Spillway, Stand, among others, and have been featured on Verse Daily. His first full-length manuscript, My Mothers’ Songs and Other Similar Songs I Learnt received a special mention in the APBF/Prairie Schooner 2015 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. D.M. is a 2016 Pushcart Prize nominee. He’s also co-editor of More Than a Number: Poems and Prose for Baga. His essays appear in B O D Y, Blueshift Journal and Rain Taxi. He lives in Boston where he’s studying for his MFA in Creative Writing at Boston University as a BU Fellow.
D.M.’s website: http://damilolapoetry.weebly.com/about.html
Where to Find D.M.’s Chapbook
http://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/new-generation-african-poets-a-chapbook-box-set-tatu/
http://africanpoetrybf.unl.edu/?page_id=3372#
Praise for In Praise of Our Absent Father
“Here is a poet whose vision and empathy reach into the intimate corners of family history, bearing witness to generations of tenderness, violence, generosity, survival and imagination with rare precision. At the intersection of the public and the personal his politics emerge with integrity – if these stories emerge from the private world of his own family, their resonance and relevance, marked in the title’s naming of our absent father, call his readers to bear witness and join in imagining other possibilities.” Tsitsi Jaji
Read more from D.M. Online
http://www.rattle.com/the-origin-of-kindness-by-d-m-aderibigbe/
http://www.wordriot.org/archives/4730
http://bodyliterature.com/2013/09/02/d-m-aderibigbe/
http://www.connotationpress.com/poetry/2485-d-m-aderibigbe-poetry
http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/two-poems–41
http://ampersandreview.com/2015/08/last-forever-by-d-m-aderibigbe/
http://thenormalschool.com/to-be-my-father-and-mirror-by-d-m-aderibigbe/
Interviews
https://waleowoade.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/aderibigbe/
http://www.theblueshiftjournal.com/#!Interview-with-DM-Aderibigbe/cltp/FF25B6CA-DB36-4157-A372-B59C8D787A78
Hear D.M. Read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSdpXPQoaU8
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
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