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Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Kwame Opoku-Duku is a Ghanaian-American poet and fiction writer. His debut chapbook, The Unbnd Verses (Glass Poetry Press)—a striking and deeply personal collection of poetry that explores themes of identity, spirituality, loss, and the complexities of the human experience —was selected for the 2018-2019 Glass Chapbook Series. Kwame’s work is featured in numerous publications, including The Atlantic, The Nation, POETRY, The Rumpus, The Kenyon Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, BOMB, The Yale Review, and The American Poetry Review.

Kwame is an alumnus of Columbia University, where he honed his craft and developed his unique voice. An active member of the literary community, Kwame has served as a guest editor for 20.35 Africa, an associate poetry editor for BOAAT Journal, an Adroit Journal mentor, and as a teaching artist with 826NYC. Kwame curates the reading series Dear Ocean, which centers work that engages climate change and environmental justice. It was originally supported by an Impact Artist Fellowship through the Human Impacts Institute. In 2017, Kwame and Karisma Price founded the Unbnd Collective.

In addition to his literary work, Kwame explores the natural world through his TikTok page, where he shares educational and creative content on wildlife, ecosystems, and environmental storytelling. Through humor, insight, and a deep connection to nature, he hopes to inspire others to engage with the environment and its preservation.

Follow his journey on TikTok to learn more.

Kwame is represented by Annie DeWitt at The Shipman Agency