Jide Salawu

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Another sad and illuminating story about trash fake art... made this time by a real person

The Poetry Swindler On Thursday, July 17, 2025, my friend Hussain Ahmed sent me a Daily Mail article written by Sonya Gugliara headlined, “Straight white author’s career finally takes off after he tells woke publishers h...

My latest newsletter for @flaminghydra.com interrogates the life of a literary hoaxer. It is worth ringing to ears that writing about gender, sexuality, or Blackness is not a mere aesthetic choice for Afro-Canadian writer!

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Perverse verse / Creative instinct Jídé Salawu investigates a faux-Nigerian literary hoax, and Anna Merlan takes in an art exhibit

FLAMING HYDRA!!! Jídé Salawu @jidesalawu.bsky.social investigates a faux-Nigerian literary hoax, and Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social takes in an art exhibit flaminghydra.com/issue-364/

The Poetry Swindler On Thursday, July 17, 2025, my friend Hussain Ahmed sent me a Daily Mail article written by Sonya Gugliara headlined, “Straight white author’s career finally takes off after he tells woke publishers h...

TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on the boring exploits of literary hoaxer Aaron Barry, who "seems to believe the outlook for publishing is grim, and that talented writers from the majority and hegemonic classes are barred from opportunities to publish" flaminghydra.com/the-poetry-s...

Thank you @newestpress.bsky.social

A poetry book cover with a back view of a man.

We have got a cover for Contraband Bodies

Thanks a lot Nathan! We should connect 😁

Madhu Krishnan · Divisions on a Sugarcane: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Long before ecocriticism or the notion of the ‘anthropocene’ or the ‘posthuman’, African indigenous cosmologies...

Divisions on a Sugarcane www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I Will Return to You, Marrakech | The Walrus In America, my body is made of mint tea, / before the first caffeine devotion

The vibrant souks of the Medina
may sink into my skull like an old knife.
If I die, my soul will roam this continent
with pleasure, along its fine shorelines....

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I am glad to have a new poem in @thewalrus.ca latest issue. This poem was written with my Moroccan friend, Houcien Abbouazza, in mind. We both waded thru America together in 2020. Grateful to @cstarnino.bsky.social for finding it worthy. Also coming forth from Contraband Bodies in Fall 2025.

Sign of the Father a fiery writer-owned cooperative

A refusal to be silenced. Sign of the Father, by Jídé Salawu @jidesalawu.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/sign-of-the-...

Sign of the Father a fiery writer-owned cooperative

ALSO TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on a Nigerian sexual assault scandal: "Rather than resigning, the accused Senate President led a pack of his supporters in an attempt to turn the tables on Senator Akpoti" flaminghydra.com/sign-of-the-...

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Our Annual Poetry Contest is officially open for submissions!

We look forward to reading your poems and to the new pleasures and insights we may discover there.

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A pack of villains / The comfort of the boss John Saward on advances in biotechnology; insights on the Latino vote from Felipe De La Hoz

Wrote about those lonely dire wolves, the sick con of “de-extinction” and the crooks who dream of making it so flaminghydra.com/issue-315/

Friday Shenanigans

White fangs Maria Bustillos on 'Sinners'

FLAMING HYDRA! TODAY: @mariabustillos.com on 'Sinners' flaminghydra.com/issue-303/

"Unmoving" by Uchechukwu Umezurike - League of Canadian Poets Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "Unmoving" by Uchechukwu Umezurike.

New stuff from @uumez.bsky.social

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New newsletter @flaminghydra.com.

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Casual portrait of @toluini.bsky.social's UNRAVEL. I must say Tolu writes masterfully. The course for the reader is never predetermined. Iyéwándé, now my leading favorite in the collection. I so confess.

World Poetry Day today, Read a verse to get high.

Carolyn Forché

If you are in Edmonton, I have a March event in downtown.

History lessens Jídé Salawu on the political memoir du jour

Nigerian political leaders do not mind writing books to violate your memories of their gross abuse of power. See my response entitled AN AFRICAN DICTATOR'S BESTSELLER to A Journey in Service a new hagiography by the dictator, Ibrahim Babangida @flaminghydra.com

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Just pre-ordered. Amazon should do quick 😁