Tag: African Poetry Book Fund
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Tawanda Mulalu is Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry 2023 winner.
Tawanda Mulalu’s poetry collection Please Make Me Pretty, I Don’t Want to Die: Poems was named the winner of the African Poetry Book Fund’s Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry 2023 on Thursday, March 28, 2024. The Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry is named for poet, publisher, editor, businesswoman, and philanthropist, Glenna Luschei. Administered…
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African Poetry Book Fund receives $343,750 grant
The African Poetry Book Fund at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln received a $343,750 grant from the Poetry Foundation to study poetry book distribution in Africa on July 13, 2022. The African Poetry Book Distribution Project, led by Kwame Dawes, George W. Holmes University Professor of English, will improve the understanding of poetry book distribution —…