During the 60th Venice Biennale, Unit presents In Praise of Black Errantry, a group exhibition that brings together works by 19 modern and contemporary Afro-diasporic artists and commissioned an essay by me. unitlondon.com/exhibitions/in…

The second letter in the correspondence between me and the poet laureate of The Netherlands, the groovy Babs Franklin Gons , I write about the Tricia Hersey idea if rest as resistance. Read it here : ilfu.com/alle-artikelen…

The wait is over! 🧵
Here's our first lineup poster for 2024, with headliners including:
Grammy-nominated musical duo Amadou & Mariam , who performed their Afrobeat hits at Glastonbury 23.
Genre-hopping Swiss band Sirens Of Lesbos
Prize-winning poet and performer Roger Robinson

‘We move authority like a strand of black hair’

- Sanah Ahsan, from ‘I Cannot Be Good Until You Say It’ Bloomsbury Books UK

Kwame Dawes is new poet laureate of Jamaica 🇯🇲 ⁦Kwame Dawes⁩ jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/09/kwa…

Just a reminder that this is on tonight and these writers are fire!!!

Lost to Arnold in the pose off in the Arnold Classic Ohio due to him having better definition!!
#lifeofapoet #arnoldscschwarzenegger #travel #ohio

Great event tonight inspired by Roger Robinson and Portable Paradise with readings by students as well as Cynthia Amoah & Ajanaé Dawkins organized with the help of Peter Hahn

“You’re traveling down the coast and you’re looking at the sea and remembering slow dancing at weddings. … And you’d get this juxtaposition of a white cliff and Keith Sweat, and you start to have these sorts of surreal, liminal moments.”

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Still dreaming about this launch party. Come hang out with me, Roger Robinson, and Cynthia Amoah this Friday at 7pm at Urban Arts Space! There will be poems, food, drinks, and a little dancing as we create a moment of paradise ❤️

If you’re in Columbus, Ohio, roll through to Urban Arts Space at 7 pm (link in bio). The final event of the Portable Paradise exhibition. I’m reading poems with Roger Robinson, Cynthia Amoah and some local students ❤️‍🔥 the event is catered and there’s a cash bar.

Workshop and QandA at Ohio State University. The students wrote some amazing poems! #lifeofapoet #ohio #OSU #workshop

At the Sara Maldoror exhibit at the Wexner Center Ohio!!
#lifeofapoet #ohio #exhibitions

Workshop, Craft Talk and Reading today at Oterbein University Ohio today. Vibes were high!!

Just by me being in Ohio made this double rainbow happen!!! #Ohio #lifeofapoet #usa #travel

Another reason to be at Friday night’s free poetry celebration: BOOKS! The Wexner Center for the Arts bookstore will be selling copies of Roger Robinson's “Home Is Not a Place,” along with titles by Danez Smith, Aurielle Marie, & Phillip B. Williams, selected by Ajanaé Dawkins.
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Slanging these poems and craft talks at Bexley High School Ohio USA. The students were so talented.
#USA #Ohio #lifeofapoet

These digs in Ohio are kind of fly. Nice place to come back to after eight days of talking all things poetry.
#ohio #crafttalk #lifeofapoet #travel

At Heathrow on my way to #Ohio to give some Craft Talks Workshops and Readings with @denisonu . It’s gonna be fun. I hope I don’t snore on the plane , I’m so going to snore on the plane.
#travel #lifeofapoet #crafttalk #readings

Remembering the photoshoot in the hotel with @laurentdenimalphotographie in @hobohel lobby in Sweden casually holding and espresso before soundcheck.
#sweden #pictures #hotel #denim