Kwame Opoku-Duku | Glass Poetry Press

Kwame Opoku-Duku (The Unbnd Verses) lives in New York City. His poetry, fiction, and interviews are featured or forthcoming in the Massachusetts Review, BOMB, Gigantic Sequins, the Adroit Journal, Booth, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Apogee, Chicago Review of Books' Arcturus, and elsewhere. Kwame has a degree in creative writing from Columbia University, and along with Karisma Price, he is a founding member of the Unbnd Collective.

I always remember writing, as far back as I can remember, always trying to write poems and plays and songs. I remember my parents bought me this little Yamaha keyboard when I was maybe six or seven, and I wrote a song for my brother. And I remember it being the first thing I composed from start to finish, and I played it for my family. I even remember I rhymed the word “planet” with “dammit” but that I sang a censored version and didn’t curse, and everyone laughed and thought it was so cute.

— in conversation with Emily Wojcik, for the Massachusetts Review