Press Release:
Nigerian award-winning poet and pianist, Echezonachukwu Nduka will be hosting a new poetry show tagged “Poetry In Minutes”.
“Poetry In Minutes” is a weekly virtual poetry show that will be run on the artist’s record label YouTube channel: Apotheosis Art House. It will feature Echezonachukwu Nduka reading and discussing poems written by Africans or are of African descent.
The first episode goes live first Friday of December (4th December) and will go on every Friday onwards.
About Echezonachukwu Nduka:
Echezonachukwu Nduka, poet and pianist, is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Chrysanthemums for Wide-eyed Ghosts (Griots Lounge, 2018), and Waterman (Griots Lounge, 2020). He holds degrees in Music from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Kingston University London, UK.
In 2016, he was awarded the Korea-Nigeria Poetry Prize on World Poetry Day. Hailed by Guardian Life Magazine as Artist Extraordinaire, Nduka’s literary works have been published in The Indianapolis Review, Transition, Bombay Review, Saraba Magazine, Jalada Africa, Kissing Dynamite, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry Vol. II, and A Thousand Voices Rising: An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry, among others.
A specialist in piano music by African composers, Nduka has performed at various venues and his work featured in notable platforms.He currently lives in New Jersey where he teaches, writes, and performs regularly as a solo and collaborative pianist. Official Website: www.artnduka.com.
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