Yalie Saweda Kamara

Writer, Professor & Poet Laureate of Cincinnati, Ohio

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“Besaydoo,” The Slowdown, Episode 567, December 15, 2021

Videos

“A Chant for Success,” Written on The 25th Anniversary of Interact for Health’s founding 2/20/2023. Description: “In launching our new strategy, we asked 100+ Greater Cincinnati community members: What does a healthy and thriving community look like to you? Cincinnati’s Poet Laureate, Dr. Yalie Saweda Kamara, wrote and performed a spoken word poem using their responses. Yalie’s beautiful words center on community voice and vision…and call us all to do our part in making this vision a reality.”

Monday Night Poetry @ KGB 3/22/21: Benjamin Garcia, Yalie Kamara, & Kazim Ali, March 22, 2021

Readings by Cerpa, Gross, Kamara, Myers, Sipple, Weise, Dodge Poetry Festival, October 30, 2020

Poems and Conversation with Kai Coggin, Yalie Saweda Kamara and Joe Weil (Student Session), Dodge Poetry Festival, October 27, 2020

FAR & Away Conversations: Kelly Lloyd & Yalie Kamara, College of Fine Arts, Florida State University (Virtual) October 13, 2020

The Adroit Journal Issue Thirty-Four Release Reading featuring issue contributors Jos Charles, Jordan Jace, Yalie Kamara, David Naimon, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Alicia Ostriker, and Diane Seuss. August 20, 2020

The Mourning Jewels, composed by Sam Ritter. Poetry by David Watters & Yalie Kamara. Performed in Auer Hall at Indiana University, Bloomington, April 17th, 2019

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