Under the leadership of Kwame Dawes, the African Poetry Book Fund is using a nearly $350,000 grant from the Poetry Foundation to study poetry book distribution in Africa. The project team’s goal is to better understand the complexities of poetry and poetry publishing on the African continent. The researchers are examining bookseller networks, international trade, literary venues, programming and more to develop a more comprehensive picture of Africa’s book distribution landscape. The project advances the African Poetry Book Fund’s larger goal of making its titles available to a wider audience in Africa. The fund, which Dawes established in 2012, promotes and advances the development and publication of the poetic arts.