Mihret Kebede

Mihret Kebede she/her is a multidisciplinary artist and poet, renowned as a co-founder of Tobiya Poetic Jazz,Netsa Art Village Artists Collective, and the Addis Video Art Festival. She received a certificate award from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Ethiopia in 2013. Mihret's artistic journey spans local and international art exhibitions, workshops, poetry performances, and collaborative projects. Her works have been featured in "Wax and Gold: Poetry Jazz", Stille Macht: Silence und Dekolonisierung, and Modernist Art in Ethiopia. Furthermore, her poems have been published in esteemed platforms including Washington Square Review by the NYU creative writing program, Poetry International, "Lyrikline" Haus für Poesie, World Literature Today, "Lichtungen - Zeitschrift für Literatur," Circumference Magazine, "Poetica7" Cologne University, Le Nom Du Son: Une Anthologie Jazz et Poesie, and the first-ever anthology of Amharic poetry in English, "Songs We Learn from Trees," Currently, Mihret is a Ph.D. in practice candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Various Ethiopian poets, Songs we learn from trees, Carcanet Press, London, 2020, © Various Ethiopian poets

'Songs We Learn from Trees'
An Anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry in English.
Edited by Chris Beckett and Alemu Tebeje

Published by Carcanet Press
Paperback 304 pages

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Various Poets with jazz musicians, Poetry Jazz: Wax and Gold, Published by Koenig Books, London, 2019, © Various Poets with jazz musicians

Poetry Jazz: Wax and Gold, Berlin
Edited by Institut für Raumexperimente e.V., Berlin;
in collaboration with Tobiya Poetic Jazz, Addis Ababa
Published by Koenig Books, London
Hardback; 256 pages; 22.0 cm x 33.0 cm
Amharic, English, and German

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#ተንከባላይ ግጥሞች
#evolutionarypoems
Amharic and English
Co-translated with Anna Moschovakis
Chapbook

Part of #ተንከባላይ ግጥሞች #evolutionarypoems upcoming book project co-translated with Author, poet and translator Anna Moschovakis

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