Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry
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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry
@amabemma.bsky.social
Assistant Prof • Essays on African Literature, Poetry, New Media, DH • Writing a book on African poetry • Founder Global Poetics Project •📍St Louis, MO & Boston, MA


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My DH & media poetry lab, The Global Poetics Project, had an amazing summer. The summer fellows were a brilliant team to work with, and we worked on producing & analyzing network models that highlight some important questions about genre in African lit.

(img from the presentation to DH folks)
October 20, 2024 at 11:04 PM
I forgot I had this account! Since I was last online, I've had two pieces published

1) new media poetry & race: www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/23...

2) a Cold War gathering of African, Black American, & Caribbean poets in West Berlin where they debated about poetry¬ions of Blackness: t.co/JJNhIQ3GKs
October 20, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Want to talk about developing community-driven initiatives and projects, cross-institutional incubators and labs, or public-facing publications and exhibitions?

📚✨ If so, come to our #MLA2024 roundtable plenary session, Humanities Without Borders!
January 5, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Thinking. Writing. Reading.

These books are my thinking companions for the evening and 🌙
December 12, 2023 at 2:47 AM
End of semester sugar to push us through final presentations.
Such great work in all my classes. 💫

Thanks to Pharaoh’s donuts 🍩
December 6, 2023 at 10:04 PM
And just like that, we’re wrapping up the semester.

Final week, final reads.
December 4, 2023 at 12:45 PM