Meet the Readers: Kemi Alabi

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. The collection was a Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist, Chicago Review of Books Award winner, and one of New York Public Library’s Best Books of 2022, among other honors. Alabi’s poems appear widely in journals and anthologies, including The Atlantic, The Nation, Poetry, Boston Review, and Best New Poets. Alabi is coeditor of The Echoing Ida Collection (Feminist Press, 2021), an anthology of Black reproductive justice writing, and the 2024-2025 Feminist-in-Residence at Northwestern University. Born in Wisconsin on a Sunday in July, they now live in Chicago.

Please join Kemi and our other fantastic readers on Tuesday, September 3, 2024 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.