A Poetry Reading with Tsitsi Jaji, Nick Mahoka, Ladan Osman, & Len Verwey (Zoom)

Tsitsi Jaji’s poetry collections include Mother Tongues (Cave Canem/Northwestern Press Prize 2018); Beating the Graves; and Carnaval (a chapbook in the New Generation African Poets series). She teaches English and African/African American Studies at Duke University, and is the author of Africa in Stereo: Music, Modernism and Pan-African Solidarity.

Dr. Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet and playwright based in London and founder of Obsidian Foundation. His new collection is The New Carthaginians, (Penguin 2025). Winner of the 2021 Ivan Juritz Prize and the Poetry London Prize. In 2017, Nick’s debut collection, Kingdom of Gravity, was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and was one of the Guardian’s best books of the year. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Cambridge Review, The New York Times, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Rialto, Poetry London, TriQuarterly Review, 5 Dials, Boston Review, Callaloo, Birmingham Lit Journal and Wasafiri. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL)

Ladan Osman is…