''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 (b. 15 January 1989; Persian language, Persian: کاوه اکبر) is an Iranian American poet, novelist, and editor. He is the author of the poetry collections ''Calling a Wolf a Wolf'' and ''Pilgrim Bell'' and of the novel ''Martyr ...

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

Interviews

''Divedapper'' has published conversations with, among others, Morgan Parker,

Ocean Vuong Ocean Vuong (born , ; born October 14, 1988) is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist. He is the recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, 2016 Whiting Award, an ...

, 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 Nick Flynn (born January 26, 1960) is an American writer, playwright, and poet. Life and career Nick Flynn was raised by his mother in Scituate, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. Flynn had no contact with his father throughout most of his chil ...

, and

Fady Joudah Fady Joudah (born 1971) is a Palestinian-American poet and physician. He is the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for his collection of poems '' The Earth in the Attic''. Life Joudah was born in Austin, Texas Aus ...

Divedapper Poetry Carnival

In 2016, the publication launched an annual ''Divadapper'' Poetry Carnival. The event was hosted by

Butler University Butler University is a private university in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1855 and named after founder Ovid Butler, the university has over 60 major academic fields of study within six colleges in the arts, business, communic ...

'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 and author of ''The Devil's Garden'' and ''Mixology''. His most decorated work is ''The Big Smoke'', which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was nominated for the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulit ...

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

Ross Gay Ross Gay (born August 1, 1974) is an American poet, essayist, and professor of English at Indiana University who won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his 2014 book ''Catalog of Unabashed ...

, and

Tarfia Faizullah Tarfia Faizullah is a Bangladeshi American poet. Born in 1980, she was raised in West Texas. She traveled to Bangladesh in 2010 to interview survivors of rape by Pakistani soldiers during the 1971 Liberation War, the birangona. ''Seam'' (SIU, 20 ...

, and in 2019, they were

Eduardo C. Corral Eduardo C. Corral is an American poet and Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. His first collection, ''Slow Lightning'', published by Yale University Press, was the winner of the 2011 Yale Younger Series Poets awa ...

Franny Choi Franny Choi (born February 11, 1989) is an American writer, poet and playwright. Life Choi uses She (pronoun), she and Singular they, they pronouns. She lived in Northampton, Massachusetts, and now resides in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Choi's par ...

, and

Hanif Abdurraqib Hanif Abdurraqib (formerly Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib; born 1983) is an American poet, essayist, and cultural critic. His first essay collection, ''They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us'', was published in 2017. His 2021 essay collection ''A Little ...

. 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

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