Center for African American Poetry and Poetics

🗣️ Mark your calendars! Submissions for the 2025 CAAPP Book Prize open next month (12.15)! The winning manuscript will receive $3,000 and publication with @AutumnHousePrs. This year's final judge is the brilliant @cawkward_rich. For more info visit caapp.submittable.com

Very excited to be bringing this film to Pittsburgh in a month! The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire. Please RSVP & reserve your seats! This is a part of a weeklong curation I’ve put together for @CAAPPoetics Black Study series called “Surrealism as Tactic.” carnegieart.org/event/surreali…

Check out the cover of LES PORTES by Meredith Nnoka! Forthcoming April 28, 2026!

We’re thrilled to share the cover of LES PORTES by Meredith Nnoka, winner of the 2025 CAAPP Book Prize (@CAAPPoetics)! In her debut collection, Nnoka traces how harm against women and femmes takes root, recurs, and reshapes itself across generations. ‌

The 2026 CAAPP (@CAAPPoetics) Book Prize is now open! The submission deadline is December 15th, 2025, and the winning manuscript will be published by AHP & receive a $3,000 prize. As always, submissions are free. This year's final judge is Ladan Osman (@OsmanLadan).

Submissions for the 2026 CAAPP Book Prize open next week (11.5)! The winning manuscript will receive $3,000 and publication with @AutumnHousePrs. This year's final judge is @OsmanLadan! For more info visit caapp.submittable.com

Not in Pittsburgh? Join us via livestream on CAAPP's Crowdcast channel: crowdcast.io/c/interlocutor…

🗣️ PITTSBURGH, join us & @AutumnHousePrs TONIGHT @ 7PM to celebrate the launch of INTERLOCUTOR GODDESS with poet Jasmine Reid and special guest Douglas Kearney. The event is free and open to the public & will take place at KST's Alloy Studios. Tix here: kelly-strayhorn.org/events/interlo…

RSVP here: kelly-strayhorn.org/events/interlo…

Join AHP poet Jasmine Reid, winner of the 2024 CAAPP Book Prize, for the launch of her book INTERLOCUTOR GODDESS on Oct. 17 at 7 p.m.! Jasmine and poet Douglas Kearney will read and converse at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater in East Liberty, then host a Q&A and book signing.

Our current Black Study: PLEASURE PRINCIPLE just began, and we, turns out, do have a livestream tonight! You can join along with us now, if you'd like! Featuring poets ASHLEY M. JONES, TERI ELLEN CROSS DAVIS, & HAYES DAVIS 🖤🖤🖤 crowdcast.io/c/ppcaapp1

@ireidjasmine @CAAPPoetics @aracelisxgirmay Order your copy today autumnhouse.org/books/interloc… #debut #poetry

Happy Pub Day to INTERLOCUTOR GODDESS by Jasmine Reid (@ireidjasmine), winner of the 2024 @CAAPPoetics Book Prize, selected by aracelis girmay (@aracelisxgirmay)! AHP is so honored to have published this collection; join us in celebrating Jasmine!

The biggest, warmest congrats to AHP's Okwudili Nebeolisa! This tender book deserves all the love!

I'm so surprised to announce that Terminal Maladies is a finalist for the Hurston Wright Legacy Awards along with Carl Phillips and Alison Rollins !!!! So grateful to the judges! My gratitude to @CAAPPoetics , and @AutumnHousePrs House Press!!!

Pre-order my debut full-length poetry collection, Interlocutor Goddess, winner of the 2024 @CAAPPoetics Book Prize, selected by aracelis girmay! It will be published this fall by @AutumnHousePrs! autumnhouse.org/books/interloc…

🎉 We're thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2025 CAAPP Book Prize is MEREDITH NNOKA, whose manuscript LES PORTES was selected by final judge Cameron Awkward-Rich and will be published in 2026 by @AutumnHousePrs. Congrats to our Runner-Up and Finalists as well! 🥳🖤

I will be attending AWP for the first time. Looking forward to reading at this AWP off-site event with my fellow @AutumnHousePrs writers, as well as other beautiful presses, on 28th Mar. I also will be signing copies of my book at the @CAAPPoetics table. More info on that later.

Livestream link for tonight! crowdcast.io/c/ecodesire?fb…

🌺🌿🍃 Livestream Registration: crowdcast.io/c/ecodesire

🌺🌿🍃 In-Person event registration: caappecodesire.eventbrite.com

🖤 CAAPP Black Study is back next week with ECOLOGICAL DESIRE! Please join us Thursday 3/13 for our main series event (curated by @Dalai_Mama_) ft. the brilliant Phillip B. Williams, Canisia Lubrin, & Jason Allen-Paissant. FREE & OPEN to ALL. In-Person or via livestream 🌺🌿🍃