Cover reveal! My second book is now available for preorder from Fonograf Editions! Thanks to Mike Corrao for the beautiful design. Art by Cy Gavin! Link to preorder: bunnypresse.org/product/bunny0…

aaah, amazing!! thank you Meg & PoetryBookSoc for featuring High Jump as Icarus Story as a book of the week!! 💛🧡💛🧡

thank you so much Forward Prizes — such a honor to have ‘Quickly and Quietly’ in the Forward Book with so many friends & faves !! 🥰♥️

i’m this week’s poet in focus T. S. Eliot Prize !! ✨ mailchi.mp/tseliotprize/g…

What an honor to have BESAYDOO featured in DEBUTIFUL's "Best Debut Poetry of 2024" list alongside such unique and gorgeous collections. Check out this lovely list! Many thanks to Debutiful for your care and championing our voices. Cheers to more. <3

What an honor to see BESAYDOO on this list of luminaries! Thank you BRITTLE PAPER for all of your labors and care for and representation of diaspora and the African letters!

One more reminder about what's gonna be a fantastic workshop with @YalieSaweda: “i am running into a new year,” titled after the famed Lucille Clifton poem. Attend virtually or in person at the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati. mercantilelibrary.com/events/calenda…

Join me THIS Saturday at Mercantile Library (or on Zoom!) for a special generative workshop inspired by Lucille Clifton’s gorgeous poem "I am running into a new year." To register: ohiopoetryassn.org/events See you soon!

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Many thanks to Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism for for your incredible support—grateful to be in community with you! ❤️

Such a great workshop yesterday with @YalieSaweda Kamara! ohiopoetryassn.org/events

Friends! Join us next week at the Poets & Writers's “The Luminous Life: Our Twentieth Annual Look at Debut Poets.” These virtual readings + conversations will take place on 1/29+1/30. Please follow link for deets. See you all there! ❤ bit.ly/4gcu1Xz

See you next Tueday for athis incredible reading at the Mercantile Library! mercantilelibrary.com/events/calenda…

APBF’s very own Yalie Saweda Kamara has been named a finalist for the 2025 Firecracker Awards in the Poetry category for her collection Besaydoo (Milkweed Editions)! Yalie Saweda Kamara CLMP Please join us in congratulating Yalie on this wonderful achievement!

Kamara is also the author of A Brief Biography of My Name, featured in the Tano edition of the African Poetry Book Fund’s New-Generation African Poets chapbook box set. clmp.org/press-center/c… akashicbooks.com/catalog/new-ge…

I'm incredibly honored to have my poem "Trim" featured as today's @poetsorg Poem-A-Day. This month’s curation has been finely, brilliantly, and lovingly crafted by the incredible SOMS out now! 👇🏾 | @omotarajames.bsky.social. Please check out all gorgeous poems spotlighted this month. Happy reading! ❤️❤️❤️

Another gorgeous poem by the beautiful, brilliant Yalie Saweda Kamara 🤩🤩

“‘Trim’ insists on using both imagination and possibility as lenses through which to view romantic disconnection, thereby creating space for something good and surprising to emerge from rupture.”  —Yalie Saweda Kamara Yalie Saweda Kamara #AboutThisPoem poets.org/poem/trim

Have you listened to “Trim” by Yalie Saweda Kamara on our daily #PoemADay podcast? Yalie Saweda Kamara podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/poe…