About Adebe D.A.
✝∞ Credo quia absurdum/Lux Aeterna (RIP A.D.): "I will not forget thy word. Amen." Psalm 119:16 ∞ ✝
To be an artist one must be an aristocrat of the Spirit.
I write articles for publications that focus on social justice, culture, and books. I'm a regular contributor to RaceWire/Colorlines, having been a former research fellow at the Applied Research Center, and Culture Editor for Racetalk.org, a blog on race issues from a political and pop culture perspective.
I was crowned Toronto's Junior Poet Laureate in 2005. My chapbook of poems, Sea Change, was published in 2007 by Burning Effigy Press.
I fulfilled my bohemian dream of attending the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Colorado in Summer 2008.
My DEBUT full-length poetry collection, Ex Nihilo, was just published by Frontenac House, as a chosen manuscript from the Dektet 2010 competition. It will be available in stores across Canada, as well as online at Amazon.com and ChaptersIndigo.ca. Read about it here: http://frontenachouse.com/titles/single/ex_nihilo/
Ex Nihilo was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the world's largest poetry prize for young writers.
I also recently edited and published, with Andrea Thompson, an anthology by and about mixed-race women entitled Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out (Inanna Publications, 2010). Check us out on facebook!
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