D. M. Aderibigbe Explained

D. M. Aderibigbe
Birth Name:Damilola Michael Aderibigbe
Birth Place:Lagos, Nigeria
Occupation:Poet

Damilola Michael Aderibigbe (born 1989) is a Nigerian poet based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He is an assistant professor of creative writing in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.[1] [2] [3] He is the author of the debut collection of poems, How the End First Showed, which won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, among other honors.[4]

Early life and education

Born in Lagos, Aderibigbe earned his bachelor's degree in history at the University of Lagos in 2014, after which he was admitted to the MFA program in creative writing at Boston University, where he received a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship.[5] [6] [7] [8] Upon completing his masters studies in 2017, he proceeded to Florida State University where he earned his doctorate degree in 2022, majoring in English and Creative Writing, with a minor in Global Black Literature.[9] [10]

Career

Aderibigbe is the author of the debut poetry collection, How the End First Showed, which won the 2018 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, a Florida Book Award, and was a finalist for Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poets and the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. The book also received praise and coverage from numerous publications, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Journal of Books, The Bay State Banner, Bostonia Magazine, Poetry Daily, The Hartford Courant, Africa in Words, The Stockholm Review of Literature, The Journal of Gender Studies among others.[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] He is also the author of a poetry chapbook, In Praise of Our Absent Father, selected for the New Generation African Poets Series of the African Poetry Book Fund.[21] His first full-length manuscript, My Mothers' Songs and Other Similar Songs I Learnt, received a special mention in the 2015 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.[22] [23]

Aderibigbe's poems have appeared in the African American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, New England Review, The Hudson Review, The Nation, Ninth Letter, Poetry Review, Sierra,Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, and elsewhere, and has been featured on Verse Daily.[24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34]

Aderibigbe has won several fellowships, residencies and honours from the James Merrill House, Banff Center for the Arts, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Ucross Foundation, Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Walter E. Dakin Fellowship) at the University of the South, OMI International Arts Center, the Jentel Foundation, among others.[35] [36] [37] [38] [39]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Center for Writers Faculty Center for Writers . . 2023-06-29.
  2. Web site: Faculty Directory . 25 November 2023.
  3. Aderibigbe . D.M. . Heritage . The Atlantic . August 20, 2023 . 25 November 2023.
  4. Osu . David Ishaya . Nigerian poet wins Brittingham Prize in Poetry . Gainsayer . February 7, 2018 . 26 November 2023.
  5. Web site: Student Spotlight: D.M. Aderibigbe Arts and Sciences . 2023-06-29 . artsandsciences.fsu.edu.
  6. Web site: The Poems Fell Off My Grief": an interview with D.M. Aderibigbe . Prairie Schooner's Blog . Prairie Schooner/ University of Nebraska . 25 November 2023.
  7. Web site: D.M. Aderibigbe Published in The Nation . BU Creative Writing . 25 November 2023.
  8. Web site: Gaamangwe . Joy . Poetry as Autobiography: A Dialogue with D.M. Aderibigbe . africaindialogue.com . November 6, 2017 . Africa in Dialogue . 26 November 2023.
  9. Web site: FSU grad student gives a voice to women in book 'How the End First Showed' . 2023-06-29 . FSView . en-US.
  10. Web site: Poet D.M. Aderibigbe Visits Nov. 14 . tntech.edu . 25 November 2023.
  11. Khan . L. Ali . Book Review: How the End First Showed by D.M Aderibigbe . New York Journal of Books . November 26, 2018 . 25 November 2023.
  12. News: Lund . Elizabeth . These new voices in poetry should make us sit up and listen . 26 November 2023 . The Washington Post . January 8, 2019.
  13. News: MacLaughlin . Nina . A Nigerian Poet Writes the Lament of His Mother . 26 November 2023 . The Boston Globe . November 20, 2018.
  14. News: Colby . Celina . How the End First Showed . 25 November 2023 . Bay State Banner . November 29, 2018.
  15. Mrjoian . Aram . Tracing a Lineage of Violence: Talking with D.M. Aderibigbe . The Rumpus . December 12, 2023 . 25 November 2023.
  16. Web site: D.M. Aderibigbe, selections from How the End First Showed . New England Poetry Club . January 2, 2020 . 25 November 2023.
  17. Web site: Uchechukwu . Umezurike . Q&A: "My poetry feeds imagination to memory." Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike interviews D.M. Aderibigbe . Africa in Words . April 25, 2019 . 25 November 2023.
  18. Web site: How the End First Showed . floridabookawards.org . 26 November 2023.
  19. Book: Aderibigbe, Damilola Michael . How the End First Showed . 2018 . University of Wisconsin Press . 978-0-299-31984-7 . en.
  20. Web site: Mangaliso Buzani Wins 2019 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry . 2023-06-29 . African Poetry Book Fund. 22 September 2020 .
  21. Web site: D. M. Aderibigbe . 2023-06-29 . africanpoetrybf.unl.edu.
  22. Web site: Mahtem Shiferraw Named Winner of 2015 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets . 2023-06-29 . African Poetry Book Fund. 9 January 2015 .
  23. Web site: Edoro . Ainehi . Africa's Rising Literary Stars Sudanese Poet Safia Elhillo Breaks into the Literary Scene on Her Own Terms . 2023-06-29 . brittlepaper.com.
  24. News: Aderibigbe . D. M. . 2017-11-02 . Oedipus . en-US . 2023-06-29 . 0027-8378.
  25. Web site: Jodee . Stanley . Q and A for All Africans - According to First - D.M. Aderibigbe . 2023-06-29 . Ninth Letter . en-GB.
  26. Aderibigbe . D.M. . Letter from My Father, Odysseus . Poetry Review . 2017 . Summer . 25 November 2023.
  27. Aderibigbe . D.M. . English . The Hudson Review . Spring 2023 . LXXVI . 1 . 25 November 2023.
  28. Aderibigbe . Michael . Duplex (An Elegy Is) . Shenandoah . Spring 2023 . 72 . 2 . 25 November 2023.
  29. Aderibigbe . D.M. . Christening: An Abecedarian . New England Review . 2022 . 43 . 2 . 148 . 10.1353/ner.2022.0066 . 252670403 . 25 November 2023.
  30. Aderibigbe . D.M. . Madalla River River Madalla . Sierra . October 29, 2022 . 26 November 2023.
  31. Aderibigbe . D.M. . Cannibal . African American Review . Winter 2014 . 47 . 4 . 583 . 10.1353/afa.2014.0058 . 246033306 . 25 November 2023.
  32. Aderibigbe . D.M. . Confession of a Hungry Son . Prairie Schooner . Summer 2016 . 90 . 2 . 153 . 10.1353/psg.2016.0195 . 79665448 . 26 November 2023.
  33. Aderibigbe . D.M. . Latitude . The Minnesota Review . May 1, 2022 . 2022 . 98 . 44 . 10.1215/00265667-9563793 . 26 November 2023.
  34. Aderibigbe . D.M. . Duplex (I Will Tell You) . Ploughshares . Winter 2022–2023 . 48 . 4 . 25 . 10.1353/plo.2022.0120 . 255849941 . 26 November 2023.
  35. Web site: Merrill Fellows . James Merrill House.
  36. Web site: Meet Our Contributors, MQR 56:3 – Michigan Quarterly Review . 2023-06-29 . sites.lsa.umich.edu.
  37. Web site: 2019-03-25 . I TRY MY BEST TO BE AS HOSTILE TO FEAR AS POSSIBLE, An Interview with D.M Aderibigbe . 2023-06-29 . The Stockholm Review of Literature . en.
  38. Web site: D.M. Aderibigbe . Word of South Festival . December 10, 2019 . 25 November 2023.
  39. Aderibigbe . D.M. . Three Poems from Nigeria . World Literature Today . May 30, 2018 . 26 November 2023.

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