A Conversation

about the poet

Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye (she/her), Saskatchewan Poet Laureate, is an African-Canadian Interdisciplinary Poet, Public Speaker, Chorus-Poem Playwright, and Thespian residing in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. Author of Earth Skin, Equanimity in Sonder, Equanimity in Conversation and The Taste of Sonder. Recipient of the RBC SaskArts Emerging Artist Award and the Platinum Jubilee Queen's Medal. The past 2020-2021 Saskatchewan Youth Poet Laurate and 2022 READSaskatoon Poet Laureate, currently working as Poet-in-Residence with the Remai Modern Gallery, City of Saskatoon, and Persephone Theatre. And Co-organzing Write Out Loud, a Youth Poetry Collective. Other playwrighting credits include Maddeness with Rocks with Obsidian Theatre and CBCGem, Painted Elephant with Black Theatre Workshop AMP, I Am Who I Am with SUMTheatre's First Monday, But First Let Me Breathe with Theatre on the Beat. Organically from Yorubaland Nigeria, Peace explores the intersectionality of the artist community from an explorer's perspective, dipping her honey-stained fingers into poetry, dance, performance art, critical research, and the theatre world.