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#thehummingbirdjournal #ghanaianwriters🇬🇭 #ghananews #africanwriters #litmag

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On Monday, October 12 at 6pm, Lynne Thompson will be reading with Michelle Bitting, Kweku John, and award-winning student writers for a Jazz Poetry Reading with musical accompaniment by Yocoya, supported by the English and African American Studies departments at Loyola Marymount University’s Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts in LA. @letpms @poemshaper @kwxku_ @lmubellarmine @lmuenglishdept @lmu_afam

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Super excited to be reading recent work with poets I truly admire while hearing a few standout gems from our student writers who won last spring’s @lmuenglishdept poetry contest! 💥🙌✍️💥Come hear us along with fab jazz delights & collaborations plus delish nosh & beverages—will be a splendid offering next Monday evening in the English Village thanks to support from the @lmuenglishdept & @lmu_afam departments🙏🎉✍️🎹🎼🎷🪘🫶🥂🌈🎉

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The Practice and Play of Revision.
Friday 16 October 2026
Poet and Professor Kweku Abimbola @kwxku_ joins us in person at the festival to facilitate The Practice and Play of Revision, a Poetry workshop.
Through close reading exercises, revision "games," and peer review, participants will leave this workshop with the practical tools needed to transform their poems from early drafts to polished final copies.
About the Facilitator
Kweku Abimbola's first full-length poetry collection, Saltwater Demands a Psalm, was published by Graywolf Press in 2023. The début collection was selected by Tyehimba Jess to receive the Academy of American Poets' First Book Award. In 2024, Saltwater also received a gold medal Florida Book Award, and the inaugural Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize.Abimbola is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Loyola Marymount University. He is also the Poet Laureate of El Segundo, CA and a 2025 Academy of American Poets National Poet Laureate Fellow.

The workshop is free and open to all. Read more about the workshop and the facilitator at the link in our bio.

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لاتزال الحرب مستمرة 💔
لحظة تدمير طيران الاحتلال منزلاً في مخيم النصيرات، وسط قطاع غزة.
#reels#فلسطين #gazaunderattack#غزة#اكسبلور

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September Sweetness🍒

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Join us for Music and Poetry at Beyond Baroque! 🎶📖

The Sér Ensemble combines oud, violin, and guitar, exploring soundscapes where the Appalachian Mountains slope into the Mediterranean Sea. Helmed by composer, writer, and educator Raffi Joe Wartanian, the group—featuring guitarist Alexy Yeghikian & violinist Shant Tanielian––draws from Armenian folk, modal jazz, flamenco, rebetiko, and poetry, to create their unique compositions. “Sér,” meaning love in Armenian and to be in Spanish, reflects a guiding ethos: compositions as a container of both presence and relation, as in an unfolding practice of community, contemplation, and mutual care. The evening also features poet laureates from Los Angeles and adjacent cities, including Los Angeles Poet Laureate, Brian Sonia-Wallace; El Segundo Poet Laureate, Kweku Abimbola; and Glendale Poet Laureate, Tina Demirdjian. 🩷📚

Click the link in our bio for tickets.

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MUSIC & THE MUSE ✨

A night of music, poetry, and improvisation with Raffi Joe Wartanian & the Sér Ensemble featuring Brian Sonia-Wallace (Poet Laureate of Los Angeles), Kweku Abimbola (Poet Laureate of El Segundo), & Tina Demirdjian (Poet Laureate of Glendale)**

Oud, violin, and guitar come together in a conversation of music & verse shaped by Armenian traditions, contemporary composition, and the restless space between genres.

📍 Beyond Baroque (681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291) 📅 Saturday, September 26 ⏰ Doors at 7pm
🎟️ Tickets: link in bio and https://www.eventbrite.com/e/music-and-the-muse-raffi-joe-wartanian-and-the-ser-ensemble-tickets-1994251576148?aff=oddtdtcreator

#MusicAndTheMuse #RaffiJoeWartanian #SerEnsemble #ArmenianMusic #Oud LiveMusic LosAngelesMusic

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Our 2026 Mbongi Week Open Mic Feature is @kwxku_ !

Born in the Gambia, Kweku Abimbola earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. He is of Gambian, Ghanaian, Nigerian, and Sierra Leonean descent.

Abimbola’s first full-length poetry collection, Saltwater Demands a Psalm, was published by Graywolf Press in 2023. The début collection was selected by Tyehimba Jess to receive the Academy of American Poets’ First Book Award. In 2024, Saltwater also received a gold medal Florida Book Award, and the inaugural Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize. His work interrogates the intersections of West African spirituality, ethnomusicology, cultural expression, and poetics to appreciate the legacies of Black literature on a global scale.

He has worked as a teaching artist for the Detroit-based literary nonprofit Inside Out Literary Arts and lectured in English and Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. Abimbola is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Loyola Marymount University. He is also the Poet Laureate of El Segundo, CA and a 2025 Academy of American Poets National Poet Laureate Fellow.

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It might be a summer heatwave but we definitely made it breezy 🕺

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OUR TRADITION. OUR VOICES. OUR LEGACY. 🖤

The Office of Black Student Services presents MBONGI WEEK 2026 🪘

From August 31–September 3, we’re bringing our community together for four days rooted in Black tradition, creativity, connection, and JOY.

🪘 8/31 | MBONGI CEREMONY
📍 The Mbongi Spot | 4 PM
We begin together—with food, drumming, tradition, and community.

🎤 9/1 | OPEN MIC ft. Kweku Abimbola
📍 The Hill | 7 PM
Poetry. Music. Spoken word. Black creative expression. Come share your voice or simply come experience the room. @kwxku_

🧵 9/2 | KENTE INFORMATIONAL
📍 The Hill | 5 PM
Learn about the history and significance of LMU’s Kente Graduation Celebration and how to be part of this sacred tradition.

♠️ 9/3 | THE VILLAGE LINK-UP: A BLACK JOY SOCIAL
📍 The Mbongi Spot | 5 PM
We’re closing out the week with the VILLAGE. Music. Food. Spades. Community. Good vibes. And did we mention… FREE TATTOOS?! 👀 @alliecattatts

Whether you’re new to LMU or returning home to the Mbongi, there is space for you here.

Come find your people. Come celebrate our culture. Come be part of the village.

Culture. Community. Connection. 🖤❤️💚

#MbongiWeek #LMUOBSS #BlackAtLMU #BlackJoy

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Let’s go see what the people are like at @rhythmandbrewed in #leimertpark

#streetphotography

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