Yalie Saweda Kamara

Writer, Professor & Poet Laureate of Cincinnati, Ohio

Press

INTERVIEWS

Writing a Poem as An Act of Faith: A Conversation with Yalie Saweda Kamara, The Rumpus, February 12, 2024

Yalie Saweda Kamara: Besaydoo, Common Good Podcast, January 5, 2024

“Women’s Magazine” Interview with Jovelyn Richards, December 19, 2023
About this show: “This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.“
Interview starts at: 30:31

“Cover to Cover” Interview with Jovelyn Richards, KPFA, December 18, 2023
About this show: A celebration of the art of poetry and prose with Jack Foley, Nina Serrano, Jovelyn Richards and Jennifer Stone
Interview starts at 31:38

Cincinnati & the Mercantile Library's Poet Laureate for 2022-2023, Cincy Lifestyle, March 7, 2022

Screen Shot 2021-10-06 at 12.21.35 PM.png — Yalie Kamara: A Brief Biography of My Name,The Great Indoors Podcast, July, 2020

How to Shout at the Storm: A Conversation with Yalie Kamara, The Adroit Journal, March 14, 2019 — How to Shout at the Storm: A Conversation with Yalie Kamara, The Adroit Journal, March 14, 2019

Profiles: Yalie Kamara, WFIU, March 12, 2018

Screen Shot 2018-02-02 at 2.40.51 AM.png — Across Multiple States, Universities, and Eras of Self, The New Life Quarterly, November 21, 2017

Screen Shot 2018-02-02 at 2.51.36 AM.png — Life and loss in Yalie Kamara’s "When the Living Sing," San Francisco Chronicle, August 10, 2017

Screen Shot 2018-02-02 at 2.55.47 AM.png — Interview with Yalie Kamara, author of When The Living Sing, Speaking of Marvels, July 14, 2017

Yalie Kamara, Local Author Who Is Publishing Her First Book, Shut Up and Listen, May 10, 2017

Screen Shot 2018-02-02 at 3.13.03 AM.png — Brunel International African Poetry Prize Interviews with Africa in Dialogue, Africa in Dialogue, May 1, 2017

Brunel International African Poetry Prize Interviews with Africa in Dialogue, Africa in Dialogue, May 1, 2017 — Brunel International African Poetry Prize Interviews with Africa in Dialogue, Africa in Dialogue, May 1, 2017

PROFILES

'Poetry and Magic Everywhere’: A Profile of Yalie Kamara, The Graduate School, University of Cincinnati, October 26, 2021

Screen Shot 2018-04-17 at 10.21.51 AM.png — Woke Africa's Choice: 21 Best African Writers of the New Generation, March 21, 2018

Martin Publishes Interview with Filmmaker in Black Camera, The Media School Report, January 8, 2018

Screen Shot 2018-02-02 at 2.44.05 AM.png — The Brittle Paper Award for Poetry: Meet the Nominees, Brittle Paper, October 4, 2017

REVIEWS

Sizzling Under the Tangerine Sun: A Review of A Brief Biography of of My Name by Yalie Kamara, Whale Road Review, June 16, 2019 — Sizzling Under the Tangerine Sun: A Review of A Brief Biography of of My Name by Yalie Kamara, Whale Road Review, June 16, 2019

Screen Shot 2019-02-07 at 10.45.39 PM.png — Review: Brief Biography of My Name, North of Oxford, February 1, 2019

roundups

Screen+Shot+2019-03-18+at+9.51.26+AM.jpg — Some Favorite Chapbooks, The Bad Pony Mag, March 18, 2019

Screen Shot 2021-10-05 at 9.47.40 AM.png — Words from Deep in a Somewhere with Yalie Kamara, Words by Winter, January 4,2021