HEY THERE, I AM
Assétou Xango
POET. SPEAKER. CHANGEMAKER.
HEY THERE, I AM
Assétou Xango
COACH, POET, LEADER, CHANGEMAKER.
Biography
East-coast based performer, writer and facilitator Assétou Xango is known as the Dark Goddess Poet. Xango’s work dismantles the dangerous, colonial binaries that restrict our full existence. As a black, pansexual, polyamorous, genderqueer womxn, Xango exists as the in-between, the darkness that serves as the entry to our deeper.
Xango was featured on HBO's Brave New Voices in 2010 and is a two-time TEDxMileHigh Speaker. Xango was a Fellow of the Academy of American Poet Laureates in 2021 and has been published by many prestigious organizations such as Westword and Poets.org.
Xango is the Emeritus Poet Laureate of Aurora, Colorado (2017-2021). Xango has a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Masters of Arts in Poetry from Wilkes University. In all xyr work, Xango is dedicated to the visibility and rights of womxn and gender non-conforming people of color through storytelling to dismantle binaries and divisions.
East-coast based performer, writer and facilitator Assétou Xango is known as the Dark Goddess Poet. Xango’s work dismantles the dangerous, colonial binaries that restrict our full existence. As a black, pansexual, polyamorous, genderqueer womxn, Xango exists as the in-between, the darkness that serves as the entry to our deeper.
Xango was featured on HBO's Brave New Voices in 2010 and is a two-time TEDxMileHigh Speaker. Xango was a Fellow of the Academy of American Poet Laureates in 2021 and has been published by many prestigious organizations such as Westword and Poets.org.
Xango is the Emeritus Poet Laureate of Aurora, Colorado (2017-2021). Xango has a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Masters of Arts in Poetry from Wilkes University. In all xyr work, Xango is dedicated to the visibility and rights of womxn and gender non-conforming people of color through storytelling to dismantle binaries and divisions.
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