Ama Codjoe
Literature
Spring 2022
Poet – United States – Van Cleef and Arpels Bogliasco Special Fellow in Poetry
Ama Codjoe will be writing poems toward a second full-length manuscript. Drawing on archival research of mid-twentieth century sideshow performers, “Joy Dark” explores and exposes the complexities and fault lines embedded in questions of authenticity and African American performance and how kinship is communicated, authenticated, and performed.