In the Beginning We Spoke Nothing

Jay Kophy is a Ghanaian poet whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Four Way Review, Pidgeonholes, The Indianapolis Review, AGNI, Glass Poetry, Tampered Press, and elsewhere. He is the winner of the inaugural Samira Bawumia Literature Prize in poetry and curator of the anthologies to grow in two bodies (Contemporary Ghanaian Writers Series, 2019) and How to Write My Country’s Name (CGWS, 2020). (updated 4/2021)