He was clearly kidding around, but in all seriousness, the poems in Somali-American poet Ladan Osman’s debut collection, “The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony,” are by turns arguably as good as ...

PHOTO PROVIDEDPoet Ladan Osman speaks at the 18th International Sapanca Poetry Evenings in Turkey. Osman was a featured artist at Wednesday's Black Poetry Day celebration at SUNY Plattsburgh.

The two specifically reflected on the poem "Sun Gets Enemy" by teacher, poet, and filmmaker Ladan Osman, whom Ahmad met at The People's Forum. " [It] shook me to my core when I first heard it ...

Award-winning author, poet, teacher and essayist Ladan Osman will share an evening of lyrical testimony on campus in A.D. White House at 5 p.m. on April 30. “A voice like Ladan’s, I think ...

Congratulations to C. X. Hua, who was selected by judge Ladan Osman as the winner of the 2019 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest! About Hua’s winning poems, Osman wrote: I kept returning to these ...

Then, they began to run. No one was laughing. Poem copyright 2022 by Ladan Osman, “Sun to God” from The Rumpus, April 26, 2022. Poem reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher.

Osman’s reading at Open Book will be hosted by Milkweed Books. 6 p.m. Free. [image_credit]Photo by Kirsten Miccoli[/image_credit][image_caption]Poet and essayist Ladan Osman to read at Open Book ...