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I Live in a Century of Money | Saddiq Dzukogi iselemagazine.com/2025/05/29/i-l…

I’m judging the 2025 Akron Poetry Prize. Send your manuscripts, tell your students, friends. Deadline: June 15th #poetry

I wrote this poem when George Floyd was murdered in the street of Minneapolis. 10 days ago was the 5th anniversary of that sad event. I am pleased to share that it has been published in the Spring issue of Pleiades alongside some beautiful friends and poets.

✨ Jaia Hamid Bashir ✨ Hi Jaia. My name is Alina Stefanescu and this is my latest published poem, which comes from the collection My Heresies, just out from Sarabande Books. thebaffler.com/poems/loose-ex…

Join us TONIGHT for our first faculty reading at our 2025 Annual Retreat! We're excited to welcome Harryette Mullen, Remica Bingham-Risher, and Frank X Walker to Pitt-Greensburg for an exciting reading starting at 7:30 PM ET. RSVP 🔗: bit.ly/2025-faculty-r…

Submissions are open for the next issue! 💙 We can't wait to see your work 😍

“There is no chance that we will fall apart. There is no chance, there are no parts.” —June Jordan. Nigerian Poets Cave Canem. Missing Michael Imossan.

New Yorkers, would you please join us this Saturday at thr Schomburg Lit festival? nypl.org/blog/2025/04/2…

"I Live in a Century of Money" by Saddiq Dzukogi, author of the forthcoming BAKANDAMIYA, was featured in Isele Magazine! bit.ly/3SOhujK

Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations to Arike Pre-order, Oga awon olosho. , winner of the 2025 Evaristo Prize for African Poetry! 🥳🥳🥳 Read more here: africanpoetrybf.brown.edu/ameen-animasha… The APBF sends gratitude to all the wonderful emerging poets who shared their work with us!

Two weeks from today, tunmise and I will read from our African Poetry Book Fund-published poetry chapbooks, with Sodïq Oyèkànmí 🍁🖤 moderating the reading & chat at the Alliance Française de Lagos. We've updated the flier to highlight our generous supporters: Alliance Française de Lagos & the Book and Art Hub.

Hi, I am Adedayo Agarau and my work is Narrative Magazine’s Poem of the Week. Grateful. Thankful. Loved. Blessed. narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems-w…

Today is the final day to apply for our postdoctoral research positions. Find the application details here: apply.interfolio.com/166894.

If you're sending out work this weekend, please keep us in mind. • Payment is one contributor copy • We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize • We award prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet

WILDNESS. Open for submissions! 📝 poetry · fiction · non-fiction → readwildness.com/submit

.Saddiq Dzukogi, author of BAKANDAMIYA and YOUR CRIB, MY QIBLA (African Poetry Book Fund), joins Cave Canem’s 2025 Cohort of fellows! Read more in BRITTLE PAPER: bit.ly/46t8icu

Submissions are now OPEN for AKÉ Review 2025! This year’s theme is “Reclaiming Truth”and we works relating to this theme. Selected works will be featured in the official AKÉ Review at #AkeFest25. Deadline: August 15. Follow the submission guidelines carefully. #ReclaimingTruth

Tonight, like Orion in a night sky, a wound is visible on my skin. And when I am asked what is the wound? I simply reply, I am getting older. Today is my birthday. And seven years ago, I left home.

The problem with this conversation is that ab-initio it has already been decided what ‘African Literature’ is and therefore it becomes difficult to engage with a discourse that begins with erasure of others that exist. I guess it’s the Ngugi at Makerere conundrum all over!

lolkerra سقراط I think the conversation is about the decline of the literary space of some African writers writing in European languages within a few metropolitan cities in Africa and majorly in the Western axis of African diaspora masquerading under an exclusionary term ‘African Literature’