Zócalo Public SquareJune Poetry Curator Walela Nehanda – 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 June Poetry Curator Walela Nehanda https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/06/02/june-poetry-curator-walela-nehanda/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/06/02/june-poetry-curator-walela-nehanda/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Fri, 02 Jun 2023 07:01:53 +0000 Jer Xiong https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=136120 Walela Nehanda is a Black, queer, and disabled cultural worker and poet. Their forthcoming debut YA poetry memoir, Bless the Blood, on surviving advanced stage leukemia, will be released next year. Nehanda is Zócalo’s Poetry Curator for June. They chatted with us about Leimert Park, Germany, and having dinner with their first ancestor.

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