Ama Codjoe

Ama Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude, winner of the 2023 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. She is the winner of a 2023 Whiting Award and a recipient of a 2024 Arts and Letters Award.
Poem of the Week

In the Noise and Whip of the Whirlwind

Ama Codjoe
October 2, 2024
Illustrated portrait of Elif Batuman and Ama Codjoe
Conversations

A Failed Book Club

How does one decide when to give up and stop reading?
Elif Batuman
and
Ama Codjoe
June 14, 2021
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Pandemic Files

After the Apocalypse

Ama Codjoe
June 4, 2020