Ifeoluwa Ayandele

I won’t be able to write from the grave so let me tell you what I love: oil, vinegar, salt, lettuce, brown bread, butter, cheese and wine, a windy day, a fireplace, the children nearby, poems and songs, a friend sleeping in my bed— and the short northern nights.

Fanny Howe was one of the first poets I ever heard read, at the Grolier from her book Second Childhood. From there it was so easy to fall in love with her poems’ simultaneous strangeness and ineffably inviting familiarity—they’ve been constant companions, and we’ve lost a legend

Book Review: ‘Ignore the Bleeding’: A Review of Okwudili Nebeolisa’s Terminal Maladies by Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé ‘Ignore the Bleeding’: A Review of Okwudili Nebeolisa’s Terminal Maladies by Ìfẹ́olúwa ÀyàndéléNebeolisa, in this debut poetry collection, Terminal Maladies, confronts the darkness that engulfs h...

I reviewed Okwudili Nebeolisa ‘s Terminal Maladies sometimes ago and it is thrilling to see it published @SoutheastReview. Please click on the link below and read it. Thank you.

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Book Review: ‘Dreaming of the Possibilities’: A Review of Ajibola Tolase’s 2000 Blacks ‘Dreaming of the Possibilities’: A Review of Ajibola Tolase’s 2000 Blacksby Ìfẹ́olúwa ÀyàndéléAjibola Tolase’s 2000 Blacks invites readers into a travelogue of Black history—that is slavery, prec...

Please my book review for Ajibola Tolase’s “2000 Blacks” published in @southeastreview.bsky.social. Click on the link below to read. Thank you.

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Thank you

I’m glad to share that my debut full length poetry manuscript has won the Moon City Press Poetry Award and will be published by @mooncityreview.bsky.social housed in the @MissouriState University English Department and will be published in the coming months.

Many thanks.

I have a new poem in the latest issue of Jacar Press. I hope you’ll find the poem lovely. It is a honor to be
among great poets in this issue. Many thanks to the editors for finding my poem worthy.

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Dear friend,

I have a nonfiction published in the latest issue of Sierra Nevada Review.

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In the midst of this unsureness, we are trying to tell a personal story. This story, the story of we, is of our loss and our loving. It is the story between deeply sleeping, dreaming, and waking. It is the story of what is crooked and loving that crooked.

going back to Juliana Spahr, always

Rest in eternal peace Nikki Giovanni 🕊️

Many thanks

Grateful to be on this list. Congratulations to everybody on the list.

Sending this around again tonight

When someone dies, we go searching for poetry.

But I want elegies while I’m still alive... I want ballads, I want ugly, grating sounds, I want repetition, I want white space... and even center-aligned italicized poems that rhyme, and most of all — feelings.

—Jenny Zhang

Keep re-reading this stunning poem by Naomi Shihab Nye:

A little Jane Hirschfield for a tender, tender Wednesday.

My Heresies, Alina Stefanescu — SARABANDE BOOKS Pre-order only. Available April 2025. Behold My Heresies : the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, b...

Dear humans,
Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤
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Modern Poetry is out today in paperback. 💋

I love this Xin Qiji poem, translated by @chowleen.bsky.social

Concluding my African American lit class with bell hooks’ “Love as the Practice of Freedom”. The twofold aim is in the spirit and form—a powerful closing message and a masterpiece on essay structure.

i am not deaf the way

By Meg Day 🙏🏽
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Creative writers: come work with us at ASU! We're currently running a search for an Assistant Teaching Professor to teach undergrad CW in-person and online, and to oversee online curriculum development as their service component. More info here: english.asu.edu/about/employ...

Poem-a-Day Poem-a-Day is the original and only daily digital poetry series featuring over 250 new, previousl

By Ted Kooser

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I Know You Know: Diane Seuss On “Ballad,” Negative Capability, and the Duende Christ was laid out in a glass coffin, like Snow White. I visited and re-visited him. He looked so much like my father on his deathbed.

This is an essay on my poem "Ballad," Keats's notion of Negative Capability, and Lorca's Duende, with a prompt and a link to the original poem. I'm happy to share it with you.

Poetry binds solitudes. It enacts a central human paradox: we exist as singular selves, yet can only know them through our relations. A poem creates a presence that's so physically, emotionally & intellectually charged that we encounter ourselves in our response to it
-Emily Warn

Odesa, Ukraine is being bombed right now.

At this moment, with war crimes against civilians happening in Sudan, Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, and elsewhere—I write about Odesa because that’s where my family lives. This is happening right now: