Ama Codjoe’s 2022 debut, Bluest Nude (Milkweed Editions), won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and was described by Ada Limón as “sensual, sound-driven, and brimming with a necessary truth.” Codjoe is a multigenre artist, both poet and dancer, and currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island as the 2025-2027 Bonderman Assistant Professor of the Practice in Literary Arts at Brown University.

Co-sponsored by Department of Art, Department of English Language and Literature, Department of Africana Studies, Smith College Museum of Art, Office for Equity and Inclusion, Cromwell Day Committee, and Smith College Lecture Committee.

Codjoe’s reading will be followed by a conversation with Alexis Callender in Weinstein Auditorium in Wright Hall on Tuesday, November 10 at 7:00 p.m. Free & open to the public. Livestream also available on the BDPC YouTube page.