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Eastern time
Xavier University
3800 Victory Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45207
United States
This event is free and open to the public.
Join Yalie Saweda Kamara for a reading with C. Dylan Bassett, highlighting Besaydoo.
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.