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sadé powell

POETRY / EPHEMERA
16 concrete haikus typewritten and reworked from Sistah Sonia Sanchez’s 1998 book of love poems, Like the Singing Coming off the Drums.

DETAILS
October 2025
Edition of 100
6x9 in.
Letterpress printed broadside on the poet’s handmade pigmented kozo & flax papers. Housed in a trifold and band printed on Hahnemuhle Ingres. Includes a reprint of Sanchez’s “Blues Haiku.”

sadé powell is a concrete poet from New York City, working at the intersections of experimental print and paper techniques. inspired by her upbringing, she uses the sonic, kinesthetic, and linguistic elements of her 1930s royal typewriter to deploy dissemblance as black feminist poethics. she is the author of a chaplet called periodluv with Belladonna* Collaborative. her chapbook wordtomydead (Ugly Duckling Presse) received the 2025 Anna Rabinowitz Award, and her debut poetry collection dontbeabitterbtch is out now with Selva Oscura Press.