Diasporic Life: Bad Beats / Bad Poems with Momtaza Mehri
Monday 16. June at 19:00 - 22:00
Metro54, Amsterdam
On Monday 16th June, we are joined by British-Somali poet and essayist, Momtaza Mehri as part of the Diasporic Life public program.
Momtaza Mehri is a poet and researcher working across criticism, education, and radio. She is a former Young People’s Poet Laureate for London and Frontier-Antioch Fellow at Antioch University. Her debut poetry collection Bad Diaspora Poems (2023) won a series of prizes, including the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She is obsessed with slippage and spillage.
Bad Beats / Bad Poems is a listening session and collective dive into the ecstasies and exiles of the Black diaspora. From coastal echoes to urban encounters, the intercontinental and intergenerational meet through poems, songs, chants, and other tools of sonic cross-pollination. Boundaries of space and time dissolve. Like our people, our soundscapes are centuries-deep, endlessly inventive, and always on the move. Let’s pause for a while and sit with them. Let’s stay surprised.
🔥Date: June 16, 2025
🔥Time: 7pm
🔥Location: Westerdoksdijk 597
🔥Entrance: Free – RSVP through the link in our bio
Metro54 • Westerdoksdijk 597, 1013 BX Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
