Poets & Writers
90 Broad Street Suite 2100
New York, NY 10004
United States
This event is free and open to the public. Register here.
Join Yalie Saweda Kamara alongside Stephanie Choi, Matthew Gellman, Jimin Seo, and Sarah Ghazal Ali for the first program in Poets & Writers’s “The Luminous Life: Debut Poets Virtual Reading.” More information and registration information here.
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.