Brian Gyamfi
@brian_gyamfi
pan-african | contributing editor: @oxfordpoetry
Excited to share two new poems on @poetrymagazine. Much gratitude to @adrian_matejka, Holly, Lindsay, and the entire editorial team. — Audio version: poetryfoundation.org/poets/brian-gy…
From Issue 53: An excerpt of the poem “Common Tongue” by Brian Gyamfi. You can read the full poem and more at the link in our bio! 💛
Kingdom is now available for preorders. I'm endlessly grateful, and still a little stunned. debutiful.net/2025/05/06/787…
Two new poems in @adroitjournal theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-th…
Congratulations to our 2025 scholars, finalists, and semifinalists! 🎉
Now that Mahmoud Khalil is the first case to be taken by ICE and is now under the threat of being deported, and now that everyone is talking about him, even in the Congress, protesting and organizing to support him and his family, we should learn from previous stories that once…
read “Hallelujah Boys” by Brian Gyamfi. tell a friend to tell a friend. nentajournal.com/hallelujahboys
our march publications featuring works from Brian Gyamfi @brian_gyamfi , Gabriel Awuah Mainoo @AwuahMainoo, Selasi McLord and Richard De-Graft @RichyDeGraft is up! please tell a friend to tell a friend! nentajournal.com
Feeling blessed to announce KINGDOM is forthcoming with upitt press. Endless gratitude to the people who have carried me here.
Two African Poets Among 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship Awardees Congratulations to Chisaraokwu Asomugha (@ChisaraAsomugha) and Brian Gyamfi (@brian_gyamfi) jaylit.com/two-african-po…
we deserve more than a ceasefire. we deserve liberation — everywhere, all of us. don't take your foot off the gas — we have so much work to do
James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker. Honored to follow the footsteps of the ancestors. Thank you @NEAarts for the faith. arts.gov/impact/literar…
"I hope no white person ever has cause to write about me because they never understand Black love is Black wealth and they’ll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy" -Nikki Giovanni This was the last time I was 1 yr ago
Excited to announce that my first book of poetry, Reality Checkmate, comes out this March 2025 from @FourWayBooks!!!! Immense thanks to all of my friends, family, teachers, and mentors for supporting me along the way 💙🧡 I can’t wait to share this collection with you.
Palestinian men and boys deserve everything. They deserve to be humanized. They deserve freedom and liberation. They deserve protection and safety. They deserve to have their stories told and shared. They deserve life and love. We owe them everything.
On almost every college campus, there is Black (& often LGBTQ) person chosen as the Palestine protest scapegoat. At UC Irvine, it’s Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard. Of 10 defendants, her charges are most punitive. Please sign this letter of support. bit.ly/WilloughbyHera…
A woman who said she is a professor in the global studies dept was detained alongside UC Irvine students When asked if she was concerned about possibly jeopardizing her job, she responded, "What job do I have if the students don't have a future?"
If I must die, let it be a tale. #FreePalestine #Gaza
To imagine hell is privilege.
Every time I interview someone in Palestine or Lebanon they always tell me that what I’m seeing on my screen is nothing compared to what they’ve witnessed. That their reality has become a hellscape that we haven’t seen a fraction of. How do we begin to grasp that?