Henneh Kyereh Kwaku

thumb Henneh Kyereh Kwaku is a Ghanaian poet, educator, and public health scholar whose work bridges the creative arts and health communication.He is the author of Revolution of the Scavengers, selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the African Poetry Book Fund, and a recipient of the 2024 J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry Magazine. His writing engages themes of environmental justice, collective memory, and health equity. Quotes Maame, i have come to listen to your fireside stories— of talking mahoganies & talking squirrels, of dwarfs & water spirits— i have come to your fireplace to say i am also telling stories and sometimes i make the trees talk too. & and sometimes they save us from evil men who have sold our lands. I want to get a pet one day – a cat, maybe or a dog – and name it after my country so each poem I write for it, is also for my country. I want a messy pet – a beautiful pet a pet that’s a metaphor for my country. That when I say my pet tore my life apart today, I also mean – my country In the beginning, God created heaven & earth. There was a creation before a naming, in a similar way, I have created & still create what poets create, which is poems & that’s how I have deserved the name ”poet.” I think it is alright if we question ourselves from time to time—it is a constant for me that I question the things I do, including my existence. What I am not afraid of is to lose the name ”poet.” It is all about how you look at the work you do & yourself as a creator—if I consider myself as my audience, then there’s no way one day the lights will come on & the audience will think I am not a poet—I am the audience. If you don’t want to see it ugly, you make it look at least good. External links Category:Living people Category:Poets from Ghana