Crisis Center
Through the collaboration of found poetry and typography, we present to you a living document of the notes, scribbles and conversations we have with each other through the writing on the furniture of the Sterling Memorial Library Stacks: a place where anonymous thoughts have become a collective institutional memory.
Premiered at the Yale Schwarzman Center.
Read the full poem here.
Seeds
Four Act Play premiered at the Yale Playwright’s Festival, March 5th, 2023. Seeds is a story of transformation, told through the lens of an African mother and daughter navigating their dynamic lives through telephone calls.
View the full performance here.
Yale College Poets
Sisal / Lesson
Poetry in the New Journal Issue, May 17, 2022.
Sacred Days Draw Near
Performed December 4th, 2022, in Dwight Chapel in New Haven, CT.
Missionaries / Sorghum
Poetry Published in Spring 2019 Edition of Menacing Hedge journal. Nominated to Best of the Net, poetry category.
COVID Stories from East Africa and Beyond
Onguru, Awuor. “What I Learned Surviving the Apocalypse.” In Covid Stories from East Africa and Beyond: Lived Experiences and Forward-Looking Reflections, edited by Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, Roopal Thaker, and Kathryn Toure, 15–20. Langaa RPCIG, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1b74222.5.
Awuor Onguru is a writer and musician from Nairobi, Kenya, who integrates indigenous East African artistic practices with dialogue on the present and future of the African youth population. Her work is inspired by her childhood experiences in urban and rural Kenya — drawing lines between these livelihoods, creating a unique lens into Kenyan self expression. After graduating from Yale University in 2024 with a degree in English Literature, she has returned to Kenya to work in the arts, using music and literary arts to empower youth in informal settlements in Nairobi. Her performance credits include vocal, poetry, visual arts and theatrical productions in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, South Africa, Grenada, Canada, Mozambique,and the United States.
This site was made by Geovanni Barrios.