{"id":2285,"date":"2016-09-23T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2016-09-23T12:48:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T16:48:14","slug":"dammy-aderibigbe-interviewed-in-prairie-schooner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2016\/09\/23\/dammy-aderibigbe-interviewed-in-prairie-schooner\/","title":{"rendered":"Dammy Aderibigbe interviewed in Prairie Schooner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/11\/Dammy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/11\/Dammy-223x300.png\" alt=\"Dammy\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/11\/Dammy-223x300.png 223w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/11\/Dammy.png 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re excited to share <a href=\"http:\/\/prairieschooner.unl.edu\/blog\/poems-fell-my-grief-interview-dm-aderibigbe-0\">this interview<\/a> with D.M. &#8220;Dammy&#8221; Aderibigbe (Poetry &#8217;16), which appeared in\u00a0<i>Prairie Schooner <\/i>this week! \u00a0Dammy recently published his chapbook,\u00a0<em>In Praise of Our Absent Father, <\/em>and it\u00a0was selected for the\u00a0<span>APBF New Generation African Poets Chapbook Series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From the interview:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;I had left my Nigeria and been to Morocco, Mexico, Barbados and of course the United States where I live now. This meant stepping out of my grandmother&#8217;s gray hair for the first time. This meant stepping out of my 6-year old sister&#8217;s tiny teeth for the first time. This meant learning things like sand, air, water, etc., all over again. You know, that&#8217;s some kind of redefinition. This alteration in my life has had an enormous impact on my approach to writing&#8230; Studying under great teachers such as Robert Pinsky, Maggie Dietz and Karl Kirchwey has made me a better critic of my poems. They have helped dig out the tooth I never knew I had. Now, I am not scared to pluck out words, lines or stanzas I find not working in a poem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Dammy!<\/p>\n<p><span>D.M. Aderibigbe is from Nigeria. His chapbook, <\/span><em>In Praise of Our Absent Father,\u00a0<\/em><span>is an APBF New Generation African Poets Chapbook Series selection. He is a recipient of 2015 Honours from Dickinson House and The Entrekin Foundation<\/span><em>.<\/em><span>His poems appear in<\/span><em> Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, cream city review, DIAGRAM, Normal School, Notre Dame Review, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, RATTLE,<\/em><span>\u00a0and <\/span><em>Spillway,<\/em><span>\u00a0which nominated him for the 2017 Puschcart Prize. He\u2019s been featured on Verse Daily. His first manuscript received a special mention in the 2015 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to share this interview with D.M. &#8220;Dammy&#8221; Aderibigbe (Poetry &#8217;16), which appeared in\u00a0Prairie Schooner this week! \u00a0Dammy recently published his chapbook,\u00a0In Praise of Our Absent Father, and it\u00a0was selected for the\u00a0APBF New Generation African Poets Chapbook Series. From the interview: &#8220;&#8230;I had left my Nigeria and been to Morocco, Mexico, Barbados and of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,8791,4162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}