Ghanaian poet, writer and author, Henneh Kyereh Kwaku has been announced as a winner of the 2024 Poetry Magazine.
Poetry (founded as Poetry: A Magazine of Verse) has been published in Chicago since 1912. It is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world.
Founded by poet and arts columnist, Harriet Monroe, who built it into an influential publication, it is now published by the Poetry Foundation. In 2007 the magazine had a circulation of 30,000, and printed 300 poems per year out of approximately 100,000 submissions. It is sometimes referred to as Poetry—Chicago.
Originally from Gonasua in the Jaman South Municipality (Bono Region) of Ghana, Henneh Kyereh Kwaku is a poet of Bono heritage and the author of Revolution of the Scavengers (African Poetry Book Fund/Akashic Books, 2020).
He is also a 2022 resident at the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora, and a recipient of the 2020 Samira Bawumia Literature Prize, the 2024 J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize.
Congratulations Kwaku!
Bakare Oluwatobiloba
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