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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Today's Feature: What Sparks Poetry: @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social on "Bakandamiya VIII" from Bakandamiya: An Elegy published by @univnebpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/bakanda...

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<em>Bakandamiya</em> VIII

In Hill-Top Secondary School, I remember being on a mound and saying we are burning down our house

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Maria Nazos @marianazos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One reading. Two handsome devils. 😈 #poetry #poem @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social - can’t wait!

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David J Bauman @davidjbauman.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

We explore folklore and faith without losing sight of the truth that poetry is also playing with language. Listen to this week’s @inthreepoems.bsky.social podcast with featured poet @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social Push play at inthreepoems.com, or hit that follow button to find your favorite platform

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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"@saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social takes in orality as the heart of a history that refuses Eurocentrism, brings in praise songs, hunter songs, the Quran, and even dialogue between an animist Bori spirit and Nietzsche," writes Poetry Northwest in a review of BAKANDAMIYA. bit.ly/419hAXb

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PoNW's Favorites | Winter 2026 | Poetry Northwest

Poetry collections to wander, want, and whirl this winter: The Hungering Years by Summer Farah (Host, Feb.) has an electric pulse both steady and sudden,

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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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

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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

"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

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Bakandamiya by Saddiq Dzukogi

The masterful second collection from Dzukogi (Your Crib, My Qibla) draws on the mythic and poetic traditions of northern Nigeria...

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SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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 X: @SaddiqDzukogi

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Lea Zengage @leazengage.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

- Saddiq M. Dzukogi

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Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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).

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

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Dr. Teo Shannon @teoshannon.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

THIS FRIDAY IN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA!!!!!

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.

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goodlifelitmag.bsky.social @goodlifelitmag.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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! 🍂

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Kate Sommer Memorial Poetry Prize — Nebraska Writers Collective

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Emanuel Xavier @emanuelxavier.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

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

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SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Today's spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “Bakandamiya XVI” by Saddiq Dzukogi: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa...

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Winning Writers @winningwriters.com · 10/01/2019

"Quenching" and "Burial Sheet" by Saddiq Dzukogi | ow.ly/PKkU30ncbvb @SaddiqDzukogi via @EL_DIAGRAM

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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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!

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.

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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

"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.

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I Live in a Century of Money | Saddiq Dzukogi

After Ilya Kaminsky /After Muriel Rukeyser 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. However you slice it…

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Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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

Judge Announced for the
2025 Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest

AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL
author of
Bite By Bite and
World of Wonders

Submissions open May 15

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

“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. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/h...

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Saddiq Dzukogi @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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:

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lisa lowe @driftinghouse.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

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

ENDING THE KOREAN WAR: a virtual symposium with the Ending the Korean War Collective, February 6-7, 2025

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

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!

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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

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-...

I think I'm tired of auditioning. I'm not dancing for bread anymore.

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

"They tagged you an illiterate, those idle bureaucrats. Unaware how on arid islands you memorized the twelve Gospels of Struggle." Yannis Ritsos

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Saddiq Dzukogi @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

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?

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

My personal guide. Got me into and out of news. Thank you always William Carlos Williams.

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Saddiq Dzukogi @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Where are the African poets here?

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Quise @marquisedavon.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live — Nikki Giovanni

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Saddiq Dzukogi @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

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.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

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 🖤

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

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Susan_Rich_Poet007 @susanrich-poet18.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

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...

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Another Year, Oh My: Celebrating

Two Years of Blue Atlas profiles, stories, and more~

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Adam Clay @adamclay.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Thank you to the editors of WAXWING for giving three new poems of mine a home--here's one of them. Grateful to be among so many amazing writers. Here's the full issue: waxwingmag.org

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Saddiq Dzukogi @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I am going to be posting solely here for a while because Meta wiped me off their platforms claiming I am violating their community policy. This is the second time I am getting flagged after posting poems. Will be posting those here all through the day:

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Saddiq Dzukogi @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

First ever photo exhibition 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Sign up for our newsletter to receive notice of the newest books, journal issues, and upcoming events! Visit our website at www.arrowsmithpress.com then scroll down to the very bottom where you can sign up. 💌

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Marguerite Alexandre @margueritealex.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Reminding me of one of my favorite pieces I played when I was still taking piano lessons back in the day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d31i... #newmusic #classicalheadbang #classipunk

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Robert Muczynski - Toccata op.15

YouTube video by Ian Tan

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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.🖤 www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

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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...

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Join our editor and cofounder Carol Edgarian this week as she explores the word “grace.” Click here to watch: bit.ly/3t85Mqp #NarrativeMagazine #Narrative #AWordPlease #CarolEdgarian #grace #graces #wordsofwisdom #words #reading #writer #quotes #motivationalquotes #kindness #mercy

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Tom Jenks and Carol Edgarian will dive into Baldwin’s world, offering insight on some of the sources in Baldwin’s life for “Sonny’s Blues” and on the logic and passion by which life may be meaningfully transformed into art. 📅 December 4 @ 5pm PST 🎟️ RSVP: www.narrativemagazine.com/narrative-re...

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I don’t want to die disfigured under the rubble. - Mahmoud Darwish, August, Beirut, 1982 (translated by Ibrahim Muhawi)

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Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Nothing persuades me that “in image of God” applies only to humans. I sense mountains, rivers, trees, lakes, animals, are far closer to essence of God than humans -Jung * “breathless, go to Lvov, after all it exists, quiet and pure as a peach. It is everywhere. -Zagajewski

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Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Sarabande will publish Katie’s and my translations of Lesyk’s powerful poems about life in Bucha, Ukraine during Russian invasion. It’s available for pre-order now on their website:

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Saddiq Dzukogi @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Excerpt from Egress, winner of @narrativemag.bsky.social Annual Poetry Prize!

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

From Justin Hamm's series of erasures in his new book O Death

Like a horse whipped amid a chorus of laughter a woman standing near the top in the shadow of her shadow. An Erasure from James Joyce's The Dead

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Susan_Rich_Poet007 @susanrich-poet18.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

“Extreme Close-up” is a pojack from Terrance Hayes, then published in Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems, read by @Major Jackson on the Slowdown—now migrated here to Blue Sky, and to you. Missing my dad today and this conjures him for me.

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Saddiq Dzukogi @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I really do miss writing poems. And taking photos. I have been a mere human being the past several weeks. It is cool with family. It is cold without my son’s three dead goldfish. Where do the ghosts of animals go? Where?

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