Author Mihret Kebede

Mihret Kebede is a multidisciplinary artist and poet. She co-founded the Tobiya Poetic Jazz series, the Netsa Art Village Artists Collective, and the Addis Video Art Festival. Her work has been featured in several books, including Wax and Gold: Poetry Jazz, Stille Macht: Silence und Dekolonisierung, Modernist Art in Ethiopia, and Songs We Learn from Trees, the first ever anthology of Amharic poetry in English. Her poems have been published in Washington Square Review, Poetry International, Lyrikline, World Literature Today, Circumference Magazine, and in the chapbook Eight #evolutionarypoems from Dirt Press. Currently, Mihret is a Ph.D. candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna where she positions poetry as a vital tool in historiographical discourses and knowledge production. Her work rethinks, revisits, and analyzes the complex layers of silenced voices over the years in the pursuit of revolution and societal change. #evolutionarypoems is Kebede’s first collection of poems in English and Amharic, and the project continues.