Ozoemezina

Cover unveiled!

In anticipation of my chapbook release reading coming up on the 16th, I'm thrilled to unveil the cover of my debut chapbook, “Cadaver of Red Roses”, published by O, Miami Poetry Fest as the winner of the ninth Derricotte/Eddy Prize Cave Canem. (1/2)

Jakky Bankong-Obi is one fine writer.
Jakky Bankong-Obi is one fine writer.
Jakky Bankong-Obi is one fine writer.

“My desire’s to stay alive / and be no larger / than a sliver / lodged in my own heart.”

— Gregory Orr

Fiziksi— The first Igbo Physics textbook by Maazị Ogbonnaya Okoro is now available in the United States Library of Congress, the biggest library in the whole world, located at Independence Avenue, Washington DC, United States of America.

Because you’re a writer doesn’t automatically make you intelligent.

— My mother, during an argument.

Which way Nigeria?

I have a poem from “The Years of Blood” in Stat®rec today.

statorec.com/two-boys-their…

Sometimes, when you admire someone you shut your eyes to their wrongs. More graciously, you offer explanations for their shortcomings and proffer justification where there should be none, but you don't recognise this. And even if you do, you offer explanations to yourself too.

Today i learned that Capybaras are chill with everyone. Here they are getting along with the entire animal kingdom. Real life Disney princesses.

I will die in Miami in the sun
—Donald Justice

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i will die in london in the neighborhood
—Gboyega Odubanjo

So happy to have written this commissioned poem about Lagos & returning for Random Photo Journal

2021. What was I thinking when I wrote this? 😂

Published in PoetryColumnNND

Waiting for an eclipse that never arrives is like waiting for a response from The Paris Review.

I'm super thrilled to be on here alongside these awesome writers.

Congratulations to everyone, and to my friends Okoronkwo Chisom and ELISHA OLUYEMI Thank You to Isele Magazine for this platform.

Bro, I've been thinking a lot about the poems in my forthcoming chap. I'm a different writer now, a better one.

This is really beautiful 🥰
Wait for the mom’s turn 🤣🤣🤣🤣

May 23, 2013. Anambra. The burial ceremony for Professor Chinua Achebe, one of the world’s best writers of all time. Video Courtesy: AP.

To those of you who think we forgot to promote our contest, well you're totally horribly utterly...right.

➡️ No fancy judges but we're awarding $3600 & trying to make this as ethical an endeavour as possible for the poetry community!

💌 Please submit & share! 🙏🏽💙