Saturday 8/24, 4pm EST, ‘I think I can’t speak for everyone here’ reading series, featured reader: Adedayo Agarau

Please join us on Saturday, 8/24, at 4pm EST, for the next installment of the 'I think I can't speak for everyone here' reading series.

Featured reader: Adedayo Agarau

Please email bluejawedsnake@gmail.com for the Zoom info and to sign up for the open mic.

Adedayo Agarau is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a Cave Canem Fellow. His works have won or have been finalists for the 2024 Wales International Poetry Prize, 2024 Alpine International Poetry Prize, 2022 Brunel Poetry Prize and the 2023 Sillerman First Book Prize. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Agbowó Magazine: A Journal of African Literature and Art, and a Poetry Reviews Editor for The Rumpus. He is the author of the chapbooks, Origin of Names (African Poetry Book Fund 2020), The Arrival of Rain (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2020), and For Boys Who Went, (Authorpedia 2016). Adedayo’s debut collection, "The Years of Blood," won the Poetic Justice Institute Editor’s Prize for BIPOC Writers and will be published by Fordham University Press in the fall of 2025.