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Sony Ton-Aime
Poet • Translator
Sony Ton-Aime serves as Executive Director of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures. He is a Haitian poet, translator, and art administrator. His poetry collection Konbit is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press, (2026). He is the author the chapbook, LaWomann (2019), the Haitian Creole translation of Olympic Hero: The Lennox Kilgour’s Story, and co-founding editor of ID13. His favorite book is Gouverneurs de la Rosee by Jacques Roumain. He enjoys cooking and photography.
Events featuring
this guest
Saturday Sept. 19 2026 • 5:30 PM | Harlem Stage Gatehouse
The People We Make Family: Angela Flournoy and Myriam J. A. Chancy on Friendship, Kinship, and the Lives Between
Angela Flournoy · Myriam J. A. Chancy · in conversation with Sony Ton-Aime
This session brings Angela Flournoy’s The Wilderness into conversation with Myriam J. A. Chancy’s Village Weavers to explore the families we inherit and the ones we build: friendship, migration, class, intimacy, and the relationships that sustain us when conventional ideas of kinship no longer quite hold.