Akua Lezli Hope is a creator and wisdom seeker who uses sound, words, fiber, glass, metal, and wire to create poems, patterns, stories, music, sculpture, adornments, and peace. She has been in print every year, since 1974. A third generation New Yorker, her honors include the NEA, two NYFAs, an SFPA award, an Elgin award, Rhysling and Pushcart Prize nominations, among others. She twice won Rattle’s Poets Respond. Her first collection, EMBOUCHURE, Poems on Jazz and Other Musics, won the Writer’s Digest book award. A Cave Canem fellow, her collection, THEM GONE, was published 2018. Her chapbook, Otherwheres (2020) is available on Amazon.
Akua Lezli Hope is featured in Eccentric Orbits – Volume 2