Bluest Nude

Madeleine Cravens is from Brooklyn. She received her MFA from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Max Ritvo Poetry Fellowship. She was the first place winner of Narrative Magazine’s 2021 Poetry Contest and 2020 30 Below Contest, a semifinalist for the 2021 92Y Discovery Prize, and finalist for the 2022 James Hearst Poetry Prize.

Madeleine Cravens

To Be Seen Clearly or Not at All: On Ama Codjoe’s “Bluest Nude”

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Madeleine Cravens is from Brooklyn. She received her MFA from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Max Ritvo Poetry Fellowship. She was the first place winner of Narrative Magazine’s 2021 Poetry Contest and 2020 30 Below Contest, a semifinalist for the 2021 92Y Discovery Prize, and finalist for the 2022 James Hearst Poetry Prize.

Madeleine Cravens

Articles

To Be Seen Clearly or Not at All: On Ama Codjoe’s “Bluest Nude”