Zócalo Public SquareApril Poetry Curator Patron Henekou – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 April Poetry Curator Patron Henekou https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2022/04/01/april-poetry-curator-patron-henekou/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2022/04/01/april-poetry-curator-patron-henekou/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Fri, 01 Apr 2022 07:01:27 +0000 Jackie https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=126729 Patron Henekou is a poet, playwright, literary translator, co-founder and director of Festival International des Lettres et des Arts, and professor of English at Université de Lomé in Togo. He has been a Fulbright fellow at the University of Nebraska’s creative writing program and an African American fellow at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. His recent works include Des cheveux et des ongles (poetry) and Vendredi soir sur la 13 (short stories). He is also curating Zócalo’s April poetry selections, so we sat down in the green room to discuss some of his favorite West African poets, how he got the nickname “Diablotin” as a very studious child, and his appreciation for jazz.  

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]]> Patron Henekou is a poet, playwright, literary translator, co-founder and director of Festival International des Lettres et des Arts, and professor of English at Université de Lomé in Togo. He has been a Fulbright fellow at the University of Nebraska’s creative writing program and an African American fellow at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. His recent works include Des cheveux et des ongles (poetry) and Vendredi soir sur la 13 (short stories). He is also curating Zócalo’s April poetry selections, so we sat down in the green room to discuss some of his favorite West African poets, how he got the nickname “Diablotin” as a very studious child, and his appreciation for jazz.

 

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