224p. Sudanese American Poet Safia Elhillo Provide brief biography; read brief excerpt from the foreword by Kwame Dawes to her first poetry collection The January Children: “she is negotiating cultures, geographies, and langauges, and these negotiations define her realtionship to the idea of exile and the idea of home.” See introduction at Born on 16 December 1990, Elhillo received a BA from the New York University’s Gallatin School and an MFA in poetry from The New School. Biography; Safia Elhillo. In Home Is Not a Country (Make Me a World, March 2), her first novel in verse, Sudanese American poet Safia Elhillo tells the story of 14-year-old Nima, who is growing up in the U.S. as the Muslim daughter of an immigrant single mom. 2021. We were discussing her first young adult novel written in verse for young adults. I'm Kojo Nnamdi. A Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she lives in Oakland. About Fatimah Asghar is a poet, filmmaker, educator and performer.Her work has appeared in many journals, including POETRY Magazine, Gulf Coast, BuzzFeed Reader, The Margins, The Offing, Academy of American Poets and many others.Her work has been featured on new outlets like PBS, NPR, Time, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, and others. Written in verse, Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo is a novel in four parts of a young woman, contextually indicated to be Sudanese American, in the diaspora struggling to place her identity within the world around her. It's called "Home is Not a Country." Elhillo received her MFA from the New School in New York City and is the author of one book of poetry, The January Children (2017), and one chapbook, The Life and times of Susie Knuckles (2012). It’s called, “Kintsugi,” the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold, silver or platinum. KHARTOUM (Sudanow) - Safia Elhillo is a Sudanese-America poet who won acclaim and several prestigious poetry awards. Grappling with poverty, loneliness, … Safia Elhillo is a Sudanese-American poet who currently serves as a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University. Safia Elhillo is the author of the poetry collection The January Children, which received the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and a 2018 Arab American Book Award. (9780593177051).Grades 8-12 . When we come back, Composer Rob Kapilow joins us on Kojo For Kids. BIO. Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.Elhillo is the recipient of the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize and fellowships from Cave Canem, The Conversation, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Safia Elhillo, Self: Application for the Position of Abdelhalim Hafez's Girl Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), which received the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and a 2018 Arab American Book Award, and the chapbook The Life and Times of Susie Knuckles (2012). Safia Elhillo. NNAMDI Safia Elhillo is the award-winning author of "The January Children." Safia Elhillo is a Cave Canem fellow and poetry editor at Kinfolks Quarterly.Her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop.She is the author of The Life and Times of Susie Knuckles. She has performed all around the world. Make Me a World, $17.99. Home Is Not a Country, Mar. We're going to take a short break. Her closest friend, Haitham, is both her neighbor and the son of her mother’s best friend. “The video is set to a poem by Safia Elhillo, author of last year’s The January Children, who wrote the piece specifically for Vonn.
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