I’ll be bringing Blue Exodus to Madison and Chicago too, come see me read 😁

“In METTLEWORK, girlhood is never over. Instead, it is an ‘un-mineable’ dimension that Jessica Johnson recounts, ‘I was wrong about the shape of time: I’d left nothing behind, I’d been walking in a circle I could only now perceive.’” PopMatters & other reviews: acre-books.com/signal-boost-r…

We invite you to preorder TERMINAL MALADIES by Okwudili Nebeolisa, the 2023 Winner of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize, selected by Nicole Sealey.

So glad to share with you three poems from my forthcoming book in the latest issue of Action, Spectacle, and in the company of veteran writers like Forrest Gander, Haryette Mullen, Maurice Manning, Alan Shapiro, and many more. You can read all poems here: action-spectacle.com/summer-2024...…

Shri Krishna on the nature of sacred offerings. From “Nature/Worship: Dharmic Environmentalism in a Time of Climate Change,” in Black Avatar (Acre Books, 2023), available in the US here: amazon.com/Black-Avatar-E…

I have been sitting on this news for a while now— but I am extremely excited to report that I have signed a contract with University of Nebraska Press under the African Poetry Book Series for my epic poem Bakandamiya. The book is forthcoming in Fall 2025.

So happy to see friends, brothers and mentors in the building at Square Books reading for Blue Exodus. Thank you Oxford!

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I will be launching Terminal Maladies in the English Department at the University of Minnesota! I’ll be having a conversation with the incredible @Kath. It'd be an absolute pleasure to see you Minneapolitans. Details in the poster

Happy pub day to Ajibola Tolase and his debut collection, 2000 Blacks, winner of the 2024 Cave Canem Prize, judged by Lynne Thompson Lynne Thompson and published through U Pittsburgh Press 🎉 upittpress.org/books/97808229…

Onyinyechi Mark has secured Nigeria's first gold medal at the 2024 Paralympics, winning in the women's 61kg powerlifting event 🥇 She set a new world record by lifting an impressive 147kg 😳

Join us Saturday, Sept 21st, for our September Watershed Reading, featuring esteemed poets Kimberly Blaeser, Sadia Hassan, and Hussain Ahmed! Admission free/donations welcome. Authors will be selling/signing their books.

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Terminal Maladies is officially out today! My utmost gratitude to Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and Christine Stroud, my editor Autumn House Press, every one of you who preordered a copy, and to my family ❤️

I lost my father in 2005 to cancer. So, I wrote something about him, about us, about our family; a closer look into grief and fatherhood. This is me sharing from a son's point of view. And it took me a lot to do this "The Last Time I Saw My Father." republic.com.ng/august-septemb…

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Happy to announce that I recently signed a contract with Acre Books for the publication of my debut poetry collection, ARA'LUEBO: The Immigrant Monologues. I can't wait to share this work with you all. Stay tuned!

Reversing the Apocalypse: A Review of Hussain Ahmed’s Blue Exodus (Orison Books). Thanks to O-Jeremiah Agbaakin and everyone The Rumpus! therumpus.net/2024/09/18/blu… via @the_rumpus

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