Center for African American Poetry and Poetics

CAAPP highlights, promotes, & shares the work of African American and African diasporic poets & pollinates cross-disciplinary conversation. Two A's, Two P's.

[Center for African American Poetry and Poetics @CAAPPoetics]

🗣️ 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 https://t.co/8v6uhg2j5m

[Autumn House Press @AutumnHousePrs]

We are honored to have helped to bring this book into the world with the @CAAPPoetics!

#feministpoetry #debut #poetrycollection

[Autumn House Press @AutumnHousePrs]

As we near the end of #NationalPoetryMonth, we can think of no better way to celebrate than the Pub Day of Meredith Nnoka's Les Portes, winner of the 2025 CAAPP Book Prize, selected by Cameron Awkward-Rich, and named a "Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026” by Ms. Magazine!

[Joy 🐎 Priest @Dalai_Mama_]

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.” https://t.co/5yqrChEeZp

[Center for African American Poetry and Poetics @CAAPPoetics]

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

[Autumn House Press @AutumnHousePrs]

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.
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[Autumn House Press @AutumnHousePrs]

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.
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[Autumn House Press @AutumnHousePrs]

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).

[Center for African American Poetry and Poetics @CAAPPoetics]

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 https://t.co/8v6uhg2j5m

[Center for African American Poetry and Poetics @CAAPPoetics]

Not in Pittsburgh? Join us via livestream on CAAPP's Crowdcast channel: https://t.co/zxP2fwsBEo

[Center for African American Poetry and Poetics @CAAPPoetics]

🗣️ 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: https://t.co/KPdffcEfls

[Autumn House Press @AutumnHousePrs]

RSVP here: https://t.co/wHPMXCElqf

[Autumn House Press @AutumnHousePrs]

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.

[Center for African American Poetry and Poetics @CAAPPoetics]

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 🖤🖤🖤 https://t.co/VAJ8htK0B6

[Autumn House Press @AutumnHousePrs]

@ireidjasmine @CAAPPoetics @aracelisxgirmay Order your copy today https://t.co/LUzGNd82rA

#debut #poetry

[Autumn House Press @AutumnHousePrs]

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!

[Autumn House Press @AutumnHousePrs]

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

[Nebeolisa Okwudili @NebeolisaO]

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!!!

[Jasmine Reid @ireidjasmine]

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! https://t.co/PbCzuQxp3i

[Center for African American Poetry and Poetics @CAAPPoetics]

🎉 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! 🥳🖤

[Nebeolisa Okwudili @NebeolisaO]

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.

[Joy 🐎 Priest @Dalai_Mama_]

Livestream link for tonight! https://t.co/ylP02KkzHv