The Poet and the Poem
2024-25 Series

Featured fahima ife

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fahima ife is a devotional poet and lyrical essayist. She is author of the poetry collection, Septet for the Luminous Ones (Wesleyan University Press, 2024), the chapbook, abalone (Albion Books, 2023), and her debut hybrid collection, Maroon Choreography (Duke University Press, 2021). She has performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of the African Diaspora, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, and other places. Her work has been published and celebrated in The Kenyon Review, The New York Times Book Review, Poetry Daily, Poets & Writers, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, and more. fahima is associate professor of Global African Aesthetics + Poetics, and director of the Black Studies minor in the department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) at the University of California Santa Cruz, where she teaches cosmic courses on roots reggae, cannabis aesthetics, goddess rituals, radical storytelling, poetics, and Love. With Ian U Lockaby, she co-edits the forthcoming journal/press LUCIUS.

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