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Streetlight Guild
1367 E Main St
Columbus, OH 43205
United States
This event is free and open to the public.
Join Yalie Saweda Kamara with Hanif Abdurraqib at Streetlight Guild, in partnership with the Ohioana Library Association. A reading will be followed by a Q&A and conversation.
Yalie Saweda Kamara
Yalie Saweda Kamara is the author of Besaydoo, winner of the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize. She is a Sierra Leonean American writer, educator, and researcher from Oakland, California and the 2022–2023 Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate.
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Yalie Saweda Kamara’s Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home—as place, as people, as body, and as language. Yalie Saweda Kamara writes for a new America, where praise is plentiful and Black lives flourish.