Faith & Migration: Author Talk w/ KÁNYIN Olorunnisola & Matthew E. Henry

KANYIN Olorunnisola, Yoruba writer and author of ARA’LUEBO: The Immigrant Monologues will be joining boston-born editor and author of Promises to Keep, Matthew E. Henry for a reading and conversation highlighting their most recent collections of poetry. Join us for an evening exploring the poetics of faith and migration.

Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is the Boston-born author of the full length collections the Colored page (Sundress Publication, 2022), The Third Renunciation (New York Quarterly Books, 2023), said the Frog to the scorpion (Harbor Editions, 2024), and Promises to Keep (Wayfarer Books, 2026), the chapbooks Teaching While Black (Main Street Rag, 2020) and Dust & Ashes (Californios Press, 2020), and the micro-chapbook have you heard the one about…? (Ghost City Press, 2023). MEH is editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal, a poetry editor at American Poetry Journal, and the creative nonfiction editor at Porcupine Literary.

KÁNYIN Olorunnisola is the author of the poetry collections, ARA’LUEBO: The Immigrant Monologues (Acre Books, 2026)…