Event | Lectures and Symposia Live! At the Library: African Sufi Poetry with Oludamini Ogunnaike Event has been rescheduled
Date and Location
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When: Thursday, October 30, 2025
06:00 pm - 08:00 pm EDT
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Where: Thomas Jefferson Building - LJ 119
10 1st Street SE, Washington, DC 20540
Part of Live at the Library
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Join us for a poetry reading and conversation with Oludamini Ogunnaike, a Nigerian-American poet and academic. Ogunnaike's work, especially his essay and podcast series "The Logic of the Birds" and his poetry collection, The Book of Clouds reflects on spiritual, philosophical, and social themes, drawing on a long tradition of thinking and speaking lyrically through West African Islamic poetic forms, especially the Sufi Qasida and Ghazal, to sing what cannot be said, but must be expressed.
This program is made possible through the generous support of the Lilly Endowment, Inc and part of the Library's long-standing series African Poets and Writers, which explores African continental and diasporic literature.