D.M. Aderibigbe
D.M. Aderibigbe is from Lagos, Nigeria. His debut book of poems, How the End First Showed (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018), won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, among other honors. His poems appear in The Nation, Ploughshares, and New England Review, among others. He’s currently an assistant professor in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.
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Duplex (An Elegy Is)
An elegy is a love poem. Says my uncle—who smiles into a mirror. My uncle smiles into a mirror: The face he worships is a palace. The face he worships is a palace Of wrinkles—though, nothing new to see. Lo ti to, wrinkles are nothing new to see: Time is a bus […]
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Processing Poetry: David Interviews D.M. Aderibigbe
David Siew Hii, Shenandoah’s associate poetry editor, interviews poets! To showcase their voices, the questions in the interview were removed, leaving behind only the voice of the writer. In this interview, D.M. Aderibigbe talks about his favorite parts of poetry, from form to creation process.