PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming

In Defense of Linear Narrative (SLICE)

Intro to Hermeneutics (Third Coast)

My Mother Says I Speak in my Mother Tongue (Third Coast)

Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (Southern Indiana Review)

Failed Sonnet (Obsidian)

Some Days I Stand in Front of the Mirror and Remind Myself (Obsidian)

To You in Your Dark Lake Moving Darkly Now (Sequestrum)

Odelegy (Sequestrum)

Published Work

Etymologicon (Tinderbox Poetry Journal; Volume 7, Issue 3)

Shibboleth (Tinderbox Poetry Journal; Volume 7, Issue 3)

Corpus Alienum (Another Chicago Magazine)

It's True. I Left A 'Shithole Country' (Another Chicago Magazine)

Wittgenstein’s Son (EcoTheo Review,Winter 2021 )

Thriller Night (The Adroit Journal, Issue 40)

Self Portrait with Two Circles (LitMag, Issue 4)

AFRICANAMERICAN’T SONNET (Palette Poetry)

A Natural History (the lickety~split)

I Walk Into Every Room And Do Not Need To Yell Where The Nigerians At (Solstice)

Elegy for My Father (Poet Lore, Summer/Fall 2021)

Autobiomythography (Harpy Hybrid Review, Issue 6)

Künstlerroman (Harpy Hybrid Review, Issue 6)

Prayer (Muzzle Magazine, Issue 28)

June 19 in History (the museum of americana, Issue 25)

While in a Zoom Meeting Regarding the Work Stoppage Set to Begin Tomorrow at 5:00am (River Mouth Review, Issue 8)

On Fire (Or, Last Wishes) (Bending Genres, Issue 22)

Country as Khaos (Agbowó, Issue 4)

Literary Realism (Okay Donkey)

A Toast (ALL Review)

The Day After A Spontaneous Trip With Friends (La Piccioletta Barca, Issue 30)

How To Account For The Origin (La Piccioletta Barca, Issue 27)

Four Minutes, Thirty-Three Seconds (La Piccioletta Barca, Issue 27)

It Burns The Blood Like Powdered Glass
(La Piccioletta Barca, Issue 26)

Alive in the Age of Worry
(New England Review, Volume 41, No. 4)

Wear A Mask But Make it Fashion (Superstition Review, Issue 26)

Middle Of The Earth (Michigan Quarterly Review, Issue 59:2)

FOR SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER (Alternating Current Press, Footnote #5)

SO, HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A CITIZEN? OR, THE DAY AMERICA ASKED ME ABOUT MY MOTHER & I SAID: WHO? I DO NOT KNOW THAT WOMAN!* (Barzakh Magazine, Spring 2018 issue)

THE DAY CHINUA ACHEBE MET JAMES BALDWIN (Barzakh Magazine, Spring 2018 issue)

MAMA SAY (Barzakh Magazine, Spring 2018 issue)

ALIEN REGISTRATION, or the DS-230 is an animal with 2 parts (Berkeley Poetry Review, Issue 48) 

AN EXAMINATION OF / ON THE MONOLITH (OR, ON BEING JOYFUL & NIGERIAN (Berkeley Poetry Review, Issue 48) 

FOR MY PEOPLE: MARGARET WALKER AND YOUNG THUG IN CONVERSATION (Flypaper Magazine)

GHAZAL, MOSTLY IN THE VOICE OF FELA (Flypaper Magazine)

A LAMENT FOR THE SECOND STANZA OF THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM (New Delta Review, Issue 9.2)

THE WORLD’S LOUDEST SOUND (Nimrod Journal, Fall/Winter 2018, Vol. 62. No. 1)

IN WHICH I INTERVIEW MYSELF AFTER WATCHING BLACK PANTHER (Santa Fe Writers Project)

UPON COMING ACROSS THE MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT OF 1918 (Sonora Review, Issue 74)

IN WHICH I ERASE [AND ADD TO] “ERROR ON MY MAY/JUNE 2007 SSCE CERTIFICATE” & “SWORN AFFIDAVIT – CORRECTION OF ERROR ON DATE OF BIRTH” & FIND MY BIRTH AN ERROR (The Texas Review’s Fall/Winter 2018 issue)

IN WHICH I ERASE [AND ADD TO THE] N-652, MY NATURALIZATION INTERVIEW RESULTS (The Texas Review’s Fall/Winter 2018 issue)

ON DIASPORA: A SHORT ESSAY (Verity La)

MY FATHER IS A PEACOCK? AN EAGLE? IDK. (Write About Now)