🗣️ 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

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

🗣️ 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

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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 🖤🖤🖤

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

🎉 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.

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🖤 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 🌺🌿🍃

We're proud to once again partner with @northwesternup for the newly-named 2026 Angela Jackson Prize! The prize is awarded every other year to support an exceptional second collection by a Black poet. Submissions close March 15th at 11:59 PM ET https://t.co/FDuoZReIbZ

All my life I swung the wrong things.  I put down mallet and muscle,  circle the tree’s girdling roots  and ask, “Where does it hurt?” ––MaKshya Tolbert @processdaily #PoemADay https://t.co/MY8j6Aqn1X