Jide Salawu

Thanks so much for your kind words and support always.✨✨✨🌸

Yes man!

Zohran!

All of Us Hidden by Joanna Streetly (Caitlin Press 2025) It might come as little surprise that I adore lyric poetry, real lyrics grounded in actual experience that produce their own wild and accura...

Thanks to Catherine Owen for this generous review of my book. It’s such an honour when someone takes the time to read and respond to your work, and you know that your work has reached beyond the void.
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YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum

I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus.

Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins

Whew. What they did!!!

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Rolling blackout Jídé Salawu on politics and power (outages)

TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on Nigeria's power outage problem, which "did not start today, and its experience of endemic national outages is part of its history" flaminghydra.com/r/5250f9c0?m...

Thanks to @ualbertapress.bsky.social for hosting us. 🙏🏾✨

Very grateful, and felt deeply honored to be questioned by my teacher and a genius poet Marilyn Dumont.

I Got Tenure and Now I Can’t Seem to Form Simple Declarative Sentences When I received the email, I was holding a piece of toast. Dry, no butter. I remember this vividly because it was the last thing in my life with a ...

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So many people are suffering. The king shits on them and destroys the house the slaves built.

Dual Book Launch and Celebration Help celebrate the launch of these two new books. It's going to be a fun night, with some VERY SPECIAL musical guests to follow

Posters are up! Very much looking forward to this book party with @lornedaniel.bsky.social

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Launch was great.✨ Thank you @newestpress.bsky.social @jenbdelisle.bsky.social

Mood and haul✨🪶

Tomorrow night! I’m thrilled to be hosting the launch of @jidesalawu.bsky.social’s wonderful collection. I have a lot of questions lined up to ask him!

Have you registered? We are going to make some necessary sounds — together.

Join us.

In person or online.

October 30. Sound—at the Interregnum.

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TODAY: No newsletter today in observation of Indigenous People's Day! Have a meaningful holiday and we'll be back tomorrow!

Now crowdfunding Bible Project to celebrate the president's son fortieth birthday. Jesus take the wheel😁

How to Crowdfund a National Library Like a Queen Though popularly perceived as the act of gathering support for someone in dire need, crowdfunding is a serious business. It is a discipline, in fact, requiring a well-conceived idea with written narra...

One who, like you, has been in the game for years, knows that this crowdfunding project requires strategy and calculation. You may have thought about the risks involved in improving the intellectual life of your country... Latest for @flaminghydra.com

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How to Crowdfund a National Library Like a Queen Though popularly perceived as the act of gathering support for someone in dire need, crowdfunding is a serious business. It is a discipline, in fact, requiring a well-conceived idea with written narra...

TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on the queenly appraoch to crowdfunding for a national library. "A bragging point for the nobles in your court to say, 'Oh yes! Ten million to this!' Perhaps they will even compete with one another in their generosity." flaminghydra.com/how-to-crowd...

Double delight roses. Profile. Brilliant pink petals. Green leaves.

Double delight. Some beauty.

"I broke
into a house
I thought
abandoned
& wrote
my first poem
on its walls"

— Aldo Amparán, "In My Terrible Years"

In Conversation with Jide Salawu and Marilyn Dumont. October 29, 2025 2-4pm

✨ In conversation: @jidesalawu.bsky.social and Marilyn Dumont at Henderson Hall at the University of Alberta. You won't want to miss this discussion with two brilliant poets!

Where: Henderson Hall at the University of Alberta (North Campus)
When: October 29, 2025 2-4pm

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Book Cover: Contraband Bodies. Poems. Jide Salawu. A closeup photograph of a dark skinned man's neck and shoulders and he twists in movement. The photograph is cut into sections and geometrically juxtaposed against itself.

🎉 Happy Pub Day!!🎉 to @jidesalawu.bsky.social and his new collection CONTRABAND BODIES, available now at a bookstore near you and should be on any book lovers fall TBR pile!

#NeWestPress #ContrabandBodies #NewRelease #CrowSaidPoetry #ReadLocal #BuyCanadian

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Edmonton friends, Jide Salawu launches Contraband Bodies at Audreys Books on October 16. This is his debut poetry collection. Congratulations, Jide!
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@jidesalawu.bsky.social @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social

Question I will be asking @hystericalblkns.bsky.social this week is, how does she write so smooth--sentences clean as bones? If you are in Edmonton neighbourhood this is not an event to miss.🪶