Скачать или смотреть Poets in Pajamas 171: featuring Akpa Arinzechukwu & Kerry Trautman

Akpa Arinzechukwu is a 2023 Oxbelly Writing Retreat Fellow, a winner of the 2021 Poetry Archive Worldview Prize, a Best of the Net nominee, Pushcart, and Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, shortlisted for the FT/Bodley Head Prize, and a finalist for the 2020 Black Warrior Review Fiction Prize, his works appear in Kenyon Review, Adda, Transition, Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, The Nation, Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He is the curator of “Muqabalal,” a bilingual conversation series, co-host of “Muqabalal’s” Poem a Day in Translation, and the Church of Poetry.


Kerry Trautman is a lifelong Ohioan whose work has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies. She co-founded ToledoPoet.com and the “Toledo Poetry Museum” page on Facebook, both of which promote Northwest Ohio poetry events. In 2019 her one-act play “Mass” was a winner of The Toledo Repertoire Theater’s “Toledo Voices” competition. She has served as judge or workshop leader for the Northwest region of Ohio’s “Poetry Out Loud” competition annually since 2016. Her books are Things That Come in Boxes (King Craft Press 2012), To Have Hoped (Finishing Line Press 2015), Artifacts (NightBallet Press 2017), To be Nonchalantly Alive (Kelsay Books 2020), Marilyn: Self-Portrait, Oil on Canvas (Gutter Snob Books 2022), Unknowable Things (Roadside Press 2023), and Irregulars (Stanchion Books 2023).