Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye
Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Saskatchewan 11th Poet Laureate, is an African-Canadian Interdisciplinary Poet, Workshop Facilitator, Chorus-Poem Playwright residing in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Organically from Yorubaland Nigeria, Peace explores the intersectionality of the artist community from an explorer's perspective, dipping her honey-stained fingers into poetry, playwriting, intimacy direction, textile creation, and performance art.
Her work knits together folklore, abstract riddles, and Òwé Yorùbá elements of poetry to create a collective one-self. Author of Earth Skin, Equanimity in Sonder, Equanimity in Conversation and The Taste of Sonder. Her newest manuscript, “The Goat’s Tongue,” won the Metatron International Poetry Prize and will be released September 2026.
The Goat's Tongue: An Interactive Poetic Tarot Reading
The Goat's Tongue: An Interactive Poetic Tarot Reading is based on the Afro-futurist concept of "Òwé Yorùbá Poetry" and "collective oneself". Interrupt the poet through different creative distractions. Recite a phrase, play your favorite song, bringing a snack e.t.c.
Once the poet is interrupted from her meditative work, she will reward you with a poetic tarot reading. During pre-colonial Nigeria, Òwé poets were tasked with judging the humanity of leaders and laymen. They were isolated in the bushes, writing on scrolls that hung like blankets. It is only when the world begins to burn that the Òwé poet's writing is interrupted by wandering souls. It was the poet's job to then offer poetic readings/advice to help reshape the world through humans. Òwé translates to "horses of conversation" in Yoruba culture; they serve as guides, resolve disputes, and uphold community values.
The conversations that arise might shape the world in the near future. We are always a poem away from change.
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