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D. M. Aderibigbe
Born
Damilola Michael Aderibigbe

1989 (age 34–35)
Lagos, Nigeria
Education
OccupationPoet

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

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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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ "Center for Writers Faculty | Center for Writers". University of Southern Mississippi. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
  2. ^ "Faculty Directory". Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  3. ^ Aderibigbe, D.M. (August 20, 2023). "Heritage". The Atlantic. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  4. ^ Osu, David Ishaya (February 7, 2018). "Nigerian poet wins Brittingham Prize in Poetry". Gainsayer. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
  5. ^ "Student Spotlight: D.M. Aderibigbe | Arts and Sciences". artsandsciences.fsu.edu. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
  6. ^ "The Poems Fell Off My Grief": an interview with D.M. Aderibigbe". Prairie Schooner's Blog. Prairie Schooner/ University of Nebraska. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  7. ^ "D.M. Aderibigbe Published in The Nation". BU Creative Writing. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  8. ^ Gaamangwe, Joy (November 6, 2017). "Poetry as Autobiography: A Dialogue with D.M. Aderibigbe". africaindialogue.com. Africa in Dialogue. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
  9. ^ "FSU grad student gives a voice to women in book 'How the End First Showed'". FSView. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
  10. ^ "Poet D.M. Aderibigbe Visits Nov. 14". tntech.edu. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  11. ^ Khan, L. Ali (November 26, 2018). "Book Review: How the End First Showed by D.M Aderibigbe". New York Journal of Books. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  12. ^ Lund, Elizabeth (January 8, 2019). "These new voices in poetry should make us sit up and listen". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
  13. ^ MacLaughlin, Nina (November 20, 2018). "A Nigerian Poet Writes the Lament of His Mother". The Boston Globe. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
  14. ^ Colby, Celina (November 29, 2018). "How the End First Showed". Bay State Banner. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  15. ^ Mrjoian, Aram (December 12, 2023). "Tracing a Lineage of Violence: Talking with D.M. Aderibigbe". The Rumpus. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  16. ^ "D.M. Aderibigbe, selections from How the End First Showed". New England Poetry Club. January 2, 2020. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  17. ^ Uchechukwu, Umezurike (April 25, 2019). "Q&A: "My poetry feeds imagination to memory." Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike interviews D.M. Aderibigbe". Africa in Words. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  18. ^ "How the End First Showed". floridabookawards.org. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
  19. ^ Aderibigbe, Damilola Michael (2018). How the End First Showed. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-31984-7.
  20. ^ "Mangaliso Buzani Wins 2019 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry". African Poetry Book Fund. September 22, 2020. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
  21. ^ "D. M. Aderibigbe". africanpoetrybf.unl.edu. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
  22. ^ "Mahtem Shiferraw Named Winner of 2015 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets". African Poetry Book Fund. January 9, 2015. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
  23. ^ Edoro, Ainehi. "Africa's Rising Literary Stars | Sudanese Poet Safia Elhillo Breaks into the Literary Scene on Her Own Terms". brittlepaper.com. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
  24. ^ Aderibigbe, D. M. (November 2, 2017). "Oedipus". ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
  25. ^ Jodee, Stanley. "Q and A for All Africans - According to First - D.M. Aderibigbe". Ninth Letter. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
  26. ^ Aderibigbe, D.M. (2017). "Letter from My Father, Odysseus". Poetry Review (Summer). Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  27. ^ Aderibigbe, D.M. (Spring 2023). "English". The Hudson Review. LXXVI (1). Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  28. ^ Aderibigbe, Michael (Spring 2023). "Duplex (An Elegy Is)". Shenandoah. 72 (2). Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  29. ^ Aderibigbe, D.M. (2022). "Christening: An Abecedarian". New England Review. 43 (2): 148. doi:10.1353/ner.2022.0066. S2CID 252670403. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  30. ^ Aderibigbe, D.M. (October 29, 2022). "Madalla River River Madalla". Sierra. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
  31. ^ Aderibigbe, D.M. (Winter 2014). "Cannibal". African American Review. 47 (4): 583. doi:10.1353/afa.2014.0058. S2CID 246033306. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  32. ^ Aderibigbe, D.M. (Summer 2016). "Confession of a Hungry Son". Prairie Schooner. 90 (2): 153. doi:10.1353/psg.2016.0195. S2CID 79665448. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
  33. ^ Aderibigbe, D.M. (May 1, 2022). "Latitude". The Minnesota Review. 2022 (98): 44. doi:10.1215/00265667-9563793. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
  34. ^ Aderibigbe, D.M. (Winter 2022–2023). "Duplex (I Will Tell You)". Ploughshares. 48 (4): 25. doi:10.1353/plo.2022.0120. S2CID 255849941. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
  35. ^ "Merrill Fellows". James Merrill House.
  36. ^ "Meet Our Contributors, MQR 56:3 – Michigan Quarterly Review". sites.lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
  37. ^ "I TRY MY BEST TO BE AS HOSTILE TO FEAR AS POSSIBLE, An Interview with D.M Aderibigbe". The Stockholm Review of Literature. March 25, 2019. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
  38. ^ "D.M. Aderibigbe". Word of South Festival. December 10, 2019. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  39. ^ Aderibigbe, D.M. (May 30, 2018). "Three Poems from Nigeria". World Literature Today. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
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