#evolutionary poems

Author: Mihret Kebede

Translator: Anna Moschovakis 

Publisher: Circumference Books (2025)

#evolutionarypoems is a translation of Mihret Kebede’s Amharic poem sequence by Anna Moschovakis and the author. #evolutionarypoems is part of a collaboration between Kebede and Moschovakis that began when they met in Addis Ababa in 2009. #evolutionarypoems is an unfinished and evolving conversation made up of many unkept promises. #evolutionarypoems contains translations but is not a translation. #evolutionarypoems is a bilingual book that extends beyond the book. #evolutionarypoems is a record of Ethiopia’s recent and current socio-political conditions in a critical voice of a poet and her friend. #evolutionarypoems is incomplete. #evolutionarypoems is research. #evolutionarypoems is a search. #evolutionarypoems is a commitment to a willingness to fail. #evolutionarypoems is an invitation to a standing date. #evolutionarypoems is a speaking in silence. #evolutionarypoems is resistance in silence.