WHEN WE ONLY HAVE THE EARTH by @abdourahmanwaberi.bsky.social and BAKANDAMIYA by @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social were featured in PEN America's roundup of books by members in 2025.
Read the full list: bit.ly/3NM2X
"The masterful second collection from @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social draws on the mythic and poetic traditions of northern Nigeria for a lyrical reimagining of the legend of Bayajidda," writes @publisherswkly.bsky.social in a Starred Review. bit.ly/4svGEnW
Chaotic energy
Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 15: Saddiq Dzukogi
Saddiq Dzukogi is a Nigerian poet based in the United States, where he is an assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Instagram: @saddiqdzukogi
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- Saddiq M. Dzukogi
Saddiq Dzukogi Book Launch & Reading Open to the public: books available for sale December 1, 2025, 5:30 pm Bailey Library / Andrews Hall 228 Creative Writing at UNL & Prairie Schooner University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Prairie Schooner and UNL Creative Writing are excited to celebrate the book launch of Saddiq Dzukogi's upcoming poetry collection, Bakandamiya: An Elegy - a book-length epic poem set in northern Nigeria.
Join us on Monday, December 1 at 5:30 pm in Andrews Hall's Bailey Library (room 228).
a promo flyer for my debut poetry book launch featuring alina nguyen and saddiq dzukogi at francie and finch bookstore in lincoln, NE at 5:30pm october 3.
THIS FRIDAY IN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA!!!!!
Calling all Nebraska writers! The NWC's Kate Sommer Memorial Poetry Prize is open and this year's guest judge is Saddiq Dzukogi. First prize is $1000 and a feature spot in our winter issue! Details and a link to submit are at
www.newriters.org/kate-sommer-...
Deadline is 10/19! 🍂
Join me for virtual Mercy Street Readings on Sunday, Mar 9 at 3pm EST! Featuring Brandel Del Franco, Stephanie Hammer, Andrea Change, Maureen Alsop, Saddiq Dzukogi, John Compton & Heather Derr Smith. Hosted by Ruben Quesada. #MercyStreetReadings
Today's spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “Bakandamiya XVI” by Saddiq Dzukogi:
www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa...
"Quenching" and "Burial Sheet" by Saddiq Dzukogi | http://ow.ly/PKkU30ncbvb @SaddiqDzukogi via @EL_DIAGRAM
CR book release graphic featuring the cover of Bakandamiya: An Elegy: an abstract piece of art in blues and greens.
CR book release graphic featuring the cover of NOTES by Dean Rader: an ochre backslash on a gray ground.
This week we celebrate two contributor book releases: BAKANDAMIYA: AN ELEGY by @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social with @univnebpress.bsky.social and NOTES by Dean Rader with The Economy Press!
This is gonna be fun!
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"I live in a small semidetached duplex / and the war does not get to me. // The news is playing. / And everyone is playing games // of semantics."
From "I Live in a Century of Money" by @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social, author of the forthcoming BAKANDAMIYA.
Judge Announced for the 2025 Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL author of Bite By Bite and World of Wonders Submissions open May 15
We are excited to announce that this year's judge for our Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest (opening May 15) is @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social, author of Bite By Bite and World of Wonders, a New York Times Bestseller and Barnes and Noble Book of the Year.
For contest guidelines, visit bit.ly/cnf25
“After a while, one has the impression that Home is simply trying to pose some questions about identity, its loss or transformation through time.”
George Gömöri reviews Andrea Tompa’s Home.
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I’m not sure what it has to do with the new Trump administration, or the deep anxiety I feel surrounding it. I’ve been thinking about time, about the kind of enlightenment that can arise from reflection—about empathy for those who haven't yet made that shift. Anyway, here’s a poem:
ENDING THE KOREAN WAR: a virtual symposium with the Ending the Korean War Collective, February 6-7, 2025
Feb 6-7: ENDING THE KOREAN WAR, a virtual symposium with the 'Ending the Korean War Teaching Collective,' sponsored by Yale AMST, HIST, EALL, FMS, WGSS, ERM, RITM, & @yalewhc.bsky.social
Spent a wonderful day as a Visiting Writer with the writers at the Converse University MFA program in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Lovely to spend time with my friend Geoff Herbach who directs the program!
I think I'm tired of auditioning. I'm not dancing for bread anymore.
We’re a print journal, but we hear you: more poems on the website!
Here’s a snippet from “Hanzi in the Rain” by Sean Thomas Dougherty.
Read the whole poem on our website: shopoetryjournal.com/sean-thomas-...
Danez, people. Danez!!!
"They tagged you an illiterate, those idle bureaucrats.
Unaware how on arid islands you memorized
the twelve Gospels of Struggle."
Yannis Ritsos
I have been writing only couplets for the last three years. Bakandamiya, epic poem, is also written in couplets, that form a unit of sense through image and moments, rather than through rhyme and meter.
Poets, what formal engagement do you consciously employ these days?
My personal guide. Got me into and out of news. Thank you always William Carlos Williams.
Where are the African poets here?
i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live
— Nikki Giovanni
Nearly a year ago, I wrote this poem, and I’m excited to share it with you now that it has been published by Consequence. I’m grateful that, at the very least, no one can legislate the ability to bear witness.
WHAT COULD BE MORE THAN A KISS? by Michael Burkard a scent. a stone alive at last after being worried for god knows how many years, a piano won by the little boy who picked the right number of fish in the sea. another kiss. followed by another kiss. followed by the dark starlight of jesus by the dark starlight of a ship too far at sea at too late a date at too late a time no one can be on board such a ship- no one can kiss like you or the ocean approaching the rest of the night waiting world
at too late a time
no one can be on board such a ship—
no one can kiss like you
or the ocean approaching the rest of the night waiting world
- Michael Burkard 🖤
Thank you for reading, thank you for listening, thank you for being part of my life, especially this last year~ susanrichpoet.substack.com/p/another-ye...
