''Divedapper'' is an American publication featuring interviews with

poets A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

. It was founded in 2015 by writer

Kaveh Akbar Kaveh Akbar (کاوه اکبر) is an Iranian-American poet and scholar. Early life and education Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1989, and grew up across the United States including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Indiana. He moved ...

. Its current co-editors are Bradley Trumpfheller and Nabila Lovelace.

Interviews

''Divedapper'' has published conversations with, among others, Morgan Parker, Ocean Vuong, Wendy Xu,

Max Ritvo Max Ritvo (December 19, 1990 – August 23, 2016) was an American poet. Milkweed Editions posthumously published a full-length collection of his poems, ''Four Reincarnations'', to positive critical reviews. Milkweed published ''Letters from Max ...

, Nick Flynn, and Fady Joudah.

Divedapper Poetry Carnival

In 2016, the publication launched an annual ''Divadapper'' Poetry Carnival. The event was hosted by Butler University's MFA program in creative writing, where Akbar was a student. The 2016 edition was headlined by

Adrian Matejka Adrian Matejka is an American poet. He was the Indiana State Poet Laureate, poet laureate of Indiana for the 2018–2019 term. Since May 2022, he has been the editor of ''Poetry (magazine), Poetry'' magazine. Life Born in Nuremberg, Germany, ...

, Francine J. Harris, and Wendy Xu. The 2018 headliners were

Nicole Sealey Nicole Sealey (born 1979) is an American poet who was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida, US. She is the former executive director of Cave Canem Foundation. She won the 2015 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize for ' ...

Ross Gay Ross Gay (born August 1, 1974) is an American poet, essayist, and professor who won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his 2014 book ''Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude'', which was also a finali ...

, and Tarfia Faizullah, and in 2019, they were

Eduardo C. Corral Eduardo C. Corral is an American poet and MFA Assistant Professor in the Department of English at NC State University. His first collection, ''Slow Lightning'', published by Yale University Press, was the winner of the 2011 Yale Younger Series Po ...

, Franny Choi, and

Hanif Abdurraqib Hanif Abdurraqib (born August 25, 1983) is an American poet, essayist, and cultural critic. He is the author of 2016 poetry collection ''The Crown Ain't Worth Much'' (published as Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib), the 2017 essay collection ''They Can't ...

. Akbar has described the carnival as "an opportunity to celebrate poetry in the most effusive, exuberant way possible," saying that it is "meant to show how vibrant and alive and fun and worthy of celebration contemporary poetry is and can be."

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Interviews

Divedapper Poetry Carnival

See also

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