Poets & Writers

The African Poetry Book Fund

Source: A reader browses the African Poetry Library in Nairobi, Kenya. Right: New chapbooks from New-Generation African Poets (Akashic Books, 2017).

I world-class writers collaborated to bring the African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) to life. Nor is it surprising, given the vast number of prolific African American and African-born writers in America, that such a fund—whose mission is to celebrate and promote the poetic arts of Africa—could have its roots here. What might be surprising, though, is that the APBF is based not on either U.S. coast, or in one of the nation’s largest, most multicultural cities, but in Lincoln, Nebraska. The

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