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April is almost upon us, and we're excited to announce the Co-Curators for Mindful Poetry Moments 2023 sessions! We're thrilled to introduce Yalie Saweda Kamara and Rimel Kamran, both of whom selected the four poems featured this year with the theme of Our Stories, Our Narrative. These collaborators are wonderful poets in their own right in addition to being incredible advocates for inclusivity within our Cincinnati community. Read below to learn more about our wonderful co-curators.
Yalie Saweda Kamara is a Sierra Leonean-American writer, educator, and researcher from Oakland, California. Selected as the 2022-2023 Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate (2-year term), she is the editor of the anthology What You Need to Know About Me: Young Writers on Their Experience of Immigration (The Hawkins Project, 2022) and the author of A Brief Biography of My Name (African Poetry Book Fund/Akashic Books, 2018) and When the Living Sing (Ledge Mule Press, 2017). Kamara has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series competition and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize and a semifinalist for the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She earned a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Cincinnati, an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University, Bloomington and an MA in French Culture and Civilization from Middlebury College. Yalie is the Director of Creative Youth Leadership at WordPlay Cincy and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati. For more, visit her website: www.yaylala.com
Rimel Kamran is a current senior at the Summit Country Day School and the Inaugural Cincinnati Youth Poet Laureate. Her poems aim to build community, celebrate diversity, share her Pakistani-American and Muslim identity, and weave the sciences with storytelling. She has received awards from the Scholastic Arts and Writing Competition, Mount St. Joseph University, and Democracy and Me and her work has been featured in The Weight Journal and Blue Marble Review. She serves on the Executive Board for the National Diversity Coalition, a student-led organization dedicated to implementing diversity and inclusion practices in schools and was selected for the Regional Youth Leadership Program hosted by the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. Rimel is also the founder of South Asians for Medicine, an online page dedicated to bringing awareness to South Asian health disparities and advocating for inclusivity in healthcare. Her work centers around her belief that both poetry and medicine are healing in their abilities to foster human connections and promote active empathy.
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