Interview with Sarah Nnenna Loveth Nwafor

Waves Breaking

In this interview, I spoke with Sarah Nnenna Loveth Nwafor about their latest publication Already Knew You Were Coming. We discuss Igbo cosmology and time, vengeance poetry, their process in writing this chapbook, and more.

Sarah Nnenna Loveth Nwafor (They/Them) is a queer Igbo-American Poet, Educator, and Facilitator who descends of a powerful ancestry. They believe that storytelling is magick, and they speak to practice traditions of Igbo orature. When they witness, their forebears are pleased. Sarah has been writing for a minute and is learning something new about their voice each year, but one thing they’re proud to share is that they have a chapbook out with Game Over Books! When Sarah's not writing; they’re probably sitting under a tree, reading about Love, dancing with friends or cooking a bomb-ass meal like the true Taurus they are.

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Books, artists, musicians, etc. mentioned in this episode:

• Mithsuca Berry

• Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Dub: Finding Ceremony

• Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989

• I.S. Jones’s Spells of My Name

• Nwaobiala

• Dena Igutsi’s Cut Woman

Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz

Host and Producer: Avren Keating

Sound of Waves Breaking: Melody Loop 95 BPM, DaveJf