September Gratitude

I have once again allowed myself to get behind on thanks to editors for honors and publications during the past couple of weeks. I am humbled that Synchronized Chaos has included “Fables” in their Best of the Net nominations this year, and also that the new online journal, Atrocity Exhibition, has included two poems (“Portrait” and “all the way from Benin”) in their first month’s offerings. (To read, go to New Writing and scroll down until you find them; both of these poems are part of my ‘Dance Here’ collection, which will be forthcoming from Origami Books in Nigeria.) I’m also grateful to be back in the conversation at Via Negativa again, with “Company” – a response to an erasure poem from Dave Bonta which you can read via the same link. Also, my poem “Tears” is included at Visual Verse this month, the first of my work to appear there.

As always, thank you for reading, and blessings to each of you.

JOS INVASION: AS AMU NNADI/COAL BRINGS A FIELD OF WRITERS AND ECHOES TO JOS ON 12 AND 13th SEPTEMBER 2015

for those who took the time to read through the poetic conversation related to jos between amu nnadi, j. lewis, and myself at Creative Thresholds, I am re-blogging this for you

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If you are in Jos, or can find a way to get to the coal city by this weekend, 12^th and 13^th September, 2015, then you had better
clear your calendar for those days. And I am talking to you and anyone who has a love for arts—not simple poetry o, full arts and a jolly good time. The event is JOS MEETS A FIELD OF ECHOES with Amu Nnadi [and friends] and it is a double day affair. The first day will have performances at the Bishop’s Court Opposite St. Louis, Jos by 2 o’clock pm. Entry is FREE for that day… The second event is for Sunday 13^th September, 2015 and it is barbecue on Shere hills. For this one, no freebies guys, it costs N500 only! Or we can negotiate 😉

Okay, so that is the summary… but what’s the deal really, yes?

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Conversations and Blessings Across an Ocean

Grateful to John Murphy at The Lake for publishing “Conveying the Blessing” — a 25th birthday gift for Nigerian poet Saddiq M Dzukogi, and to another young Nigerian poet, Siraj A Sabuke, for a conversation-in-poetry now up at Synchronized Chaos (thank you, editor Cristina Deptula).