Dasan Ahanu

Dasan Ahanu is a poet, performance artist, emcee, educator and community organizer from Raleigh, North Carolina. He has published three poetry books and is the author of A Month of Sundays, a 31-poem collection from Aquarius Press. He has held roles at Harvard's Hip Hop Archive, the Hayti Heritage Center, and UNC-Chapel Hill, and currently directs a Mellon-funded creative futures initiative at Carolina Performing Arts.