Adebe DeRango-Adem

Adebe DeRango-Adem is a writer and former attendee of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (Naropa University), where she mentored with poets Anne Waldman and Amiri Baraka. She the author of four full-length poetry books to date. Her fourth and most recent collection, Vox Humana (Book*hug Press, 2022), won the 2023 Raymond Souster Award. Selections from Vox were developed into an original choral composition during her 2023 residency with the Choral Creation Lab, in collaboration with fellow resident composers and the Amadeus Choir of Toronto. “Aria Apocalypta,” a poem from her current and in-progress work, was longlisted for the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize.