Kemi Alabi is the author of Against Heaven (Graywolf Press, 2022), selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award. Their work appears in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Poetry, Beloit Poetry Journal, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2,...
At Civitella I was able to write – unhurried, unrushed, undeadlined – for the first time in a long time. More importantly, perhaps, I had time to daydream; to slowly think; to slowly see. I had forgotten what that was like. It was the perfect place to...
