Poet

Misrak Terefe

(Ethiopia, 0)

Biography

Misrak Terefe is a well-known young poet and performer based in Addis Ababa. She is a founding member of the Tobiya Poetic Jazz group that holds popular monthly events at the Ras Hotel. She writes fearlessly and brilliantly about emotional turmoil, depression, sexual violence. She has published one book of poems, called Chew Berenda (Salt Market).

Songs We Learn From the Trees is the first anthology of Amharic poetry to be translated to English. A first taste of a rich literature for English readers. Anthologies naturally group writers together, but in order to enable each of the excerpted poets to stand out on their own, Poetry International Archives is presenting them individually, with brief biographies provided by the book's editors.

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Listen to Terefe as she explains and recites one of her poems on the Carcanet Press YouTube channel.