Book launch for Adeyado Agarau feat. Sarah Ghazal Ali & Erin Sharkey
Join Milkweed Books as we present Adedayo Agarau’s book launch for his collection, The Years of Blood. Adedayo will read from the book and be joined in conversation with gracious local poets Sarah Ali Ghazal and Erin Sharkey.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Winner of the 2023-24 Poetic Justice Institute Editors Prize for a BIPOC Writer
In this unflinching debut collection, Adedayo Agarau confronts the harrowing reality of ritual killings and child abductions that have terrorized Nigeria from the turbulent pre-democratic era to the present day. Set against the backdrop of rural Ibadan, The Years of Blood plunges readers…
This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are encouraged but not required.
Milkweed Books
1011 S Washington Avenue
Suite 107
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States