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Poet D.M. Aderibigbe visits Nov. 14
COOKEVILLE, Tennessee (Sept. 20, 2019) – Poet D.M. Aderibigbe will host a public reading Thursday, Nov. 14, at the Backdoor Playhouse.
Aderibigbe graduated with a BA in history and strategic studies from University of Lagos in 2014. Born and raised in Nigeria, he earned his MFA in poetry from Boston University. He is currently a PhD student at Florida State University.
He is the author of a chapbook, In Praise of Our Absent Father, selected for the New Generation African Poets Series of the African Poetry Book Fund. His poems have appeared in the African American Review, The Nation, Ninth Letter, Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Rattle and elsewhere.
For more information, visit https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5812.htm
The public reading will begin at 7 p.m.
This event is sponsored by the Center Stage series, which is made possible by TTU’s general education fund. It is free and open to the public.
