Events, Interviews & Press | Black Punning Poet

Press, Interviews & Events

Finding Community in Poetry | Written by Sara Falligant for Johns Hopkins University & Medicine

Johns Hopkins Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship Undergraduate Research Grants Awarded | JHU Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship

Yasmine Bolden and Bluejays & Poets Win Inaugural Arts and Innovation Awards | Johns Hopkins University: The Writing Seminars

Women of Color Appreciation Dinner Featured Performer and Awardee | Hosted by the Sigma Sigma Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity of Johns Hopkins and the Men of Color Hopkins Alliance (Spring 2023)

Women's Leadership Brunch Featured Performer | Hosted by the Mu Psi Chapter of the Delta Sigma Thetas of Johns Hopkins (Spring 2023)

Sundress Academy for the Arts | Best of the Net Winners (Spring 2023)

Humans of Hopkins: Yasmine Bolden | Johns Hopkins University Hub & News-letter (Spring 2023)

Communities Affected by Anti-Blackness and Access to Democracy with Artificial Intelligence | Comparative International Education Studies Annual Conference (Spring 2023)

The Power of Words Featured Performer and Presenter | Hosted by the Mu Psi Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority of Johns Hopkins and the Black Student Union with Guest Performances from Bluejays & Poets (Spring 2023)

February Lit Barn Reading Co-Host | Hosted by the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars Advisory Board and the Bluejays & Poets (Spring 2023)

Walk of Remembrance Honors People Enslaved On Homewood Campus | Hosted by Inheritance Baltimore at the Homewood Museum and Tubman Memorial Garden with performances by Yasmine Bolden, Briane Ali, and Elder Charlie Dugger (Fall 2022)

Thunder & Lightning: In the Name of Pride | Hosted by Valois Vera, Art Spark Texas, and Coalition of Texans with Disabilities (Summer 2022)

Disabled Youth Poetry Reading | Hosted by Leela Raj-Sankar (Summer 2022)

The Lickety Split & Offing Magazine | Featuring Nicole Tsuno, Ray Levy Ucheda, Yasmine Bolden and Joshua Tvrdy (Summer 2022)

Baltimore Youth Poet Laureate Finalists Announcement | DewMore Poetry and City Lit Project (Spring 2022)

Johns Hopkins Office of Multicultural Affairs | Heritage 365 Speaker Series With Crystal Valentine (Spring 2022)

Charleston & Scene - Post and Courier | Charleston poet co-founds national collective to showcase women of color (Spring 2022)

WYPR Morning Edition - NPR | Shining light on enslavers in Congress and honoring those held in bondage (Winter 2022)

A Tribute to Homewood's History | The Ritual of Remembrance (Winter 2022)

Johns Hopkins University Hub | Honoring the Humanity of Enslaved People at Homewood (Winter 2022)

The Five Star Journal| Yasmine Bolden: Speaking Up On What No One Speaks About (2021)

Arts Lounge| Arts Lounge's Best of Net Nominations 2021 (2021)

The Young Writers Initiative| Summer Write-A-Thon, featuring NYT Best Selling Author Chloe Gong, TeenPit 2019 Winner Ananya Devarajan, Pushcart Prize nominated poet Yasmine Bolden, and more. (2021)

Maya's Corner Podcast| The Beauty of the Writing Community with Yasmine (2021)

Fairfax County, Channel 16| Juneteenth Resiliency Award Ceremony (2021)

Metropolitan School of the Arts| The Class of '21's Senior Showcase (2021)

PublishYOUth| Yasmine Bolden: National Award-Winning Poet, Playwrighting Advice, & The Connectivity of Writing (2021)

Fairfax County Times| ArtsFairfax Celebrates National Poetry Month With 30 Guest Poetry Readers (2021)

ArtsFairfax| Yasmine Bolden Reads her original work “Imagine Yourself a Celestial Being” (2021)

ArtsFairfax | 2021 Uphoff Art and Writing Scholarship Awarded to Yasmine Bolden and Sojung Pak

2021 Scholastic Writing Awards Ceremony | Featuring David Levithan, Poet Laureate of Fairfax County VA Nicole Tong, and American Voices Nominees Rachel Brooks, Yasmine Bolden, and Kaya Dierks (2021)

DC Public Library | Teen Black History Month Open Mic (2021)

Relatively Nobody Podcast| Storytelling Beyond the White Gaze (Scheduled for release in 2021)

172 Podcast| Yasmine Bolden for Natasha McKenna (Scheduled for release in 2021)

Teen Vogue| Election Night 2020: Ten Teens Share Their Plans (2020)

Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream| A Virtual Q&A with the I, Too, Am the Dream Winners (2020)

Yahoo! News| Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream Announces I, Too, Am the Dream Winners (2020)

Humans In Dance Project| Artist Spotlight: Yasmine Bolden (2020)

Zenerations| Voices of the Unheard Poetry Q&A with Jasmine Kaur (2020)

Writopia Lab| DC Youth Essay Conference at Georgetown University (2020)

Writopia Lab| Black Lives Matter Play Festival (2020)

Gear Up Alabama| The New Box Movement (2020)

Zenerations| Juneteenth Poetry Reading (2020)