Boatemaa Adoawaa Han Mee Agyeman-Mensah

Boatemaa Adoawaa Han Mee Agyeman-Mensah is a GhanaianKoreanAmerican poet from Ham Lake, Minnesota. Her writing has appeared in Cellar Door, COUNTERCLOCK Journal, and the Carolina Review. Boatemaa is interested in how the interiority of poetry is fundamentally bound to things beyond the individual, such as community care and political change.

For the past three years, she has taught youth art and poetry classes in Waseca, Minnesota. She has worked with poet, Tyree Daye, to design and teach an undergraduate course at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill dedicated to poetry as critical theory.

Additionally, she has held a fellowship at PEN America and the Artists at Risk Connection to defend persecuted artists worldwide. Currently, she serves as co-director of COUNTERCLOCK x PATCHWORK, an interdisciplinary poetry-film collaborative fellowship.