Poets & Writers Theater

In this 92nd Street Y event, Ama Codjoe reads from her debut collection, Bluest Nude (Milkweed Editions, 2022), with an introduction by poet Nkosi Nkululeko, followed by Carl Phillips reading from his latest collection, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022), with an introduction by poet Shane McCrae. Phillips won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his collection.

“Once you can identify dehumanization, just breath can make a brick cage clumsy.” This short film for Motionpoems is an adaptation of Cynthia Manick's poem “Things I Carry Into the World” featuring four poets from Urban Word NYC: Esther Aloba, Nkosi Nkululeko, Makayla Posely, and Trace DePass.

“What do I even have to leave behind? This body? I crack it open and another falls out. I’m like a Russian doll of the dead. So many eulogies, so many eulogies written at the brim of my mouth.” In this video from Button Poetry, Nkosi Nkululeko performs “Not Finished Yet” at the 2015 National Poetry Slam in Oakland.