Literary Women’s Circle

Meeting Day: 3rd Friday every month

Meeting Time: 12:00 pm EST

Circle Maven: Ayo Ayoola-Amale

Ayo Ayoola-Amale, JD serves in the Peace Room of the Founding Mothers Movement and leads its Literary Women’s Circle. She is a peace activist, creative visionary for social transformation, and author of six volumes of poems that have appeared in national and international anthologies, journals, and magazines. She founded the Splendors of Dawn Poetry Foundation and co-founded Poets of the Planet. Along with Nigerian poet and writer Diego Odoh Okenyodo, she co-founded the West Africa Poetry Prize, of which she is a director. She also organized "100,000 Poets for Change" and has been a guest poet at the Medellin International Poetry Festival, the Kistrech Poetry Festival in Kenya, and other international literary festivals. In addition, Ayo is the editor and co-publisher of the anthology "Notes of a Baobab" and a member of the editorial board of Wuerzart Literary Journal in Germany. Her literary works include the play Broken Dreams (2011), and the poetry collection Life Script.