Chicago Public Library Poetry Fest: Safia Elhillo & sam sax

Safia Elhillo and sam sax read their poetry at the 19^th annual Chicago Public Library Poetry Fest in celebration of National Poetry Month. Elhillo, who has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Conversation, and Crescendo Literary and the Poetry Foundation’s poetry incubator, is the author of The January Children (2017). Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, she is co-winner of the 2015 Brunel University African Poetry Prize, and winner of the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. A two-time Bay Area Grand Slam champion, sax is the author of  Madness (2017), winner of the National Poetry Series. His second book, Bury It (2018), won the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Cosponsored with the Chicago Public Library