The Center for Ethics and Writing is proud to introduce its latest fellow, poet D.M. Aderibigbe. Aderibigbe will teach poetry courses at Bard College’s Annandale campus during this fellowship, and will give a reading in Spring 2026. 

D.M. Aderibigbe is from Lagos, Nigeria. He’s the author of 82nd Division (Akashic Books, 2025), winner of the National Poetry Series, and How the End First Showed (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018), winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, among other honors. He has received fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission, Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Walter E. Dakin Fellowship), The James Merrill House, OMI/Ledig House, Ucross, Jentel, and Boston University, where he earned his MFA in creative writing. His poems appear in The Atlantic, The Nation, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, and New England Review, among others.