Yalie Saweda Kamara

Writer, Professor & Poet Laureate of Cincinnati, Ohio

August 10-5 Years Later!


What a beautiful thing for social media to commemorate. Pictured here: August 10, 2017, my first chapbook launch in Oakland, California surrounded by so many people I love from every part of my life (even Bloomington and Paris!) and loved ones who are also no longer here. ✨🙏🏿✨We were all in that room. We laughed, cried, rejoiced and were together. We were together!!! I was held and lifted up. What a sacred moment. What perfect love. My people, my people. Thank you then. Thank you now. Thank you forever. 🙏🏿❤️❤️❤️🙏🏿