Jamila Woods is a poet, singer, songwriter, arts educator and multidisciplinary artist from Chicago's South Side. Jamila has released a trio of acclaimed albums: Heaven, Legacy! Legacy! and Water Made Us. Her writing has been published in POETRY, Poets.org, and The Offing, and was featured in the 2023 anthology “Black Love Letters.” She has been awarded writing residencies at Millay Arts, Hedgebrook, BLKSPACE on Ryder Farm, and Civitella Ranieri. An award-winning poet, Jamila’s work often blurs boundaries between poem and song. As cultural critic Doreen St. Felix writes in her review of HEAVN, “It makes you wish all singers were poets.”
Jamila Woods' 2025 EU/UK Tour is an extension of her longtime commitment to using music and poetry as tools for storytelling, healing, and collective imagination. Rooted in the lineage of artists who use their voices for liberation and truth-telling, the tour seeks to create transformative listening spaces where audiences can reflect, connect, and envision new possibilities for themselves and the world around them.
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