I’m thrilled to announce that my fifth full-length poetry collection, Hands in Clay, is forthcoming from Serving House Books (Fall 2025).
I’m open to booking readings, guest teachings, interviews, writing workshops, and other creative/literary-related speaking engagements wherever the readers are gathered, so feel free to get in touch via [mildred.barya(at)gmail(dot)com]
Praise for Hands in Clay
A radical, radiant melancholy is the light that comes from Mildred Kiconco Barya’s poems. Moonlight, hellfire, komorebi–light filtered through leaves. And the light from fires – buried, rekindled, luminous – a cremating fire of ritual and transformation of experience. Barya has a discourse with the spirit world in dreams and receives messages from ancestors, phantom children, and the dead which proves the real world is porous and miraculous. Barya has a witchy power and has written a haunted book that manufactures wonder.
–Bruce Smith, Hungry Ghost
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