In celebration of National Poetry Month, CHPL is welcoming Yalie Saweda Kamara to the Downtown Main Library! Yalie, Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate Emerita and the 2025 Ohio Poet of the Year, will sign books and discuss her writing. CHPL's current Writer in Residence, Intisar Khanani, will lead the discussion.

This non-ticketed event is FREE and open to the public, and books by both authors will be available for purchase from The Bookery. Part of the event’s proceeds support The Library Foundation of Cincinnati and Hamilton County