Contemporary Arts Center Black Box Theater
44 East 6th Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
United States
This event is free and open to the public. Register here.
Join for the launch of Besaydoo, the award-winning highly acclaimed debut full-length poetry collection from Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate Yalie Saweda Kamara. Following this reading, Yalie will be joined in conversation with poet, author and professor Ross Gay. Questions will also be fielded from the audience.
6:00 pm: Reception
7:00 pm Program
8:15: Book sales & signing
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.
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.