Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah
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About Emmanuel
I am a Ghanaian American poet, editor, and educator living out the
diaspora in Boston, Massachusetts. For 6 years I taught 11th grade English at
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, and prior to that served as a teaching artist at
organizations throughout Boston. I have very recently (September 2023) transitioned
from teaching high school English, and am currently working as a school librarian at
the Joseph Lee School in Dorchester, Boston (it's a K-8!). While I miss my high
schoolers, the transition to working with littles, particularly kids growing up in the
city I myself grew up in, has been incredibly joyful and life-giving. The pursuit of joy,
and that which sustains life, is essential to my creative practice, and to my practice of
living. My first chapbook, "not without small joys" (published in 2021 by Game Over
Books Press) explores the centrality of joy as an animating force, especially in the face
of human suffering. In my free time, I enjoy hot carbs, afternoons spent playing board
games, and the long sigh at the end of a good book.
