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‘Something for everyone’: CAAPP prepares for next Black Study series

By Sinead McDevitt, Contributing Editor • January 23, 2022

Pitt’s Center for African American Poetry and Poetics will soon bring together a variety of writers, artists and musicians to be in conversation with one another for their “Black Study on Intimacy, Part Two” series in April.

CAAPP names poet Xandria Phillips as new creative writing fellow

By Jessica McKenzie, Staff Writer • June 23, 2021

When Xandria Phillips was growing up, they wrote poetry as a way to cope with the ups and downs of being a teenager in rural Ohio. Now they are the newest creative writing fellow at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics from 2021-2023.

CAAPP event explores sound, diaspora and oppression

By Charlie Taylor, Culture Editor • April 16, 2021

Diana Khoi Nguyen, an assistant professor of English writing, curated and moderated “Of Sounds and Re-sounds” Wednesday night as the fourth event in the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics’ “Black Studies 2.0” series.

Dawn Lundy Martin: Teaching the poetics of engagement

By Julia Kreutzer, Senior Staff Columnist • April 8, 2021

While she may not have imagined it as such, Dawn Lundy Martin's passion for poetry would soon spiral into an illustrious career spent telling stories and empowering others to do the same.

‘The Sweetness that Survives the Slaughter’: Zun Lee and Aracelis Girmay discuss hope, vulnerability

By Sinead McDevitt, Senior Staff Writer • October 2, 2020

Zun Lee and Aracelis Girmay presented works that celebrated the beauty of Black life and moments of quiet tenderness.

Some classics translations skirt conversations about race, Yale professor says

By Martha Layne, Assistant News Editor • September 30, 2020

Greenwood’s Monday afternoon talk, “Overthrowing Deadly Metaphors,” kicked off the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics’ week of Black Study Intensive sessions. The event featured Greenwood presenting her unpublished paper on the language of Aristotle, as well as discussion with Greenwood moderated by Dan Kubis, senior English literature lecturer.

Falling into the t(rap) of poetry with Tongo Eisen-Martin and Simone White

By Sinead McDevitt, Staff Writer • March 3, 2020

Snippets of conversation that rose above the heavy bass of the music started to die down as Tongo Eisen-Martin took the stage at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater

Catalog of visiting black poets’ work on display in Hillman Library

By Brenden Rearick, For The Pitt News • February 20, 2020

Colorful chapbooks — small collections of poetry centered on a theme — currently line the featured shelves in Hillman’s new African American poetry exhibit.