Drunk as a Poet on Payday

Happy National Poetry Month! Today, poet D.M. Aderibigbe joins me to talk about his new book, 82nd Division. D.M. Aderibigbe was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. Prior to 82nd Division, he published his first collection of poems, How the End First Showed, which won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. He has received fellowships and scholarships from the Mississippi Arts Commission, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the James Merrill House, Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center, and Boston University. His poems have appeared in Tatu: New-Generation African Poets, The Atlantic, The Nation, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and New England Review, among others. He teaches in the Written Arts Program as Senior Fellow in Ethics and Writing at Bard College.

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Jason Gray
Jason Gray is the author of the poetry collections Radiation King and Photographing Eden. His poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Image, and elsewhere.

What is Drunk as a Poet on Payday?

Good news is sometimes hard to come by for poets, and what’s better news than a new book! Celebrate with us as Jason Gray hosts an interview podcast with poets discussing their new books. Each episode is a smart, fun look into the world of poetry, where the guests read several poems for their new work, and talk about how their books came to be, and how they write the way they do.