Exhibit at Love Library celebrates African Poetry

Students use the AR technology on the APBF exhibit

Don't miss this wonderfully informative exhibition about the history of the African Poetry Book Fund (APBF), which is spearheaded by Kwame Dawes, Chancellor’s Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of the Prairie Schooner.

The exhibit was curated and designed by University Libraries Professor Lorna Dawes and boasts exciting new Augmented Reality technology that makes it interactive and brimming with information. The simple yet elegant frames for the exhibit were designed by McArthur Genius Fellow Walter Kitundi.

This is the first leg of what will be a world-wide tour as the APBF exhibit accompanies the African Poetry Symposia, a public series traveling around the world that features dialogue, lectures, and exchanges about major themes and developments in African poetry. After leaving UNL, the exhibit and Symposia series will travel to the Library of Congress in DC, and then to Oxford University in the UK.

The APBF exhibit is on display through May 4, on the second floor of Love Library North.