Ifeoluwa Ayandele
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Ifeoluwa Ayandele
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"My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body," forthcoming @mooncitypress: 2024 Moon City Poetry Award Winner. PhDing+ MFA @Floridastate
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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
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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going back to Juliana Spahr, always
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Rest in eternal peace Nikki Giovanni 🕊️
Many thanks
(once more with feeling, and without so many typos lol)

We are thrilled to announce the fifteen finalists in the 2025 Glass Chapbook Series! We'll be choosing three chapbooks for publication. Thank you to the nearly 300 poets who sent in a manuscript.

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Grateful to be on this list. Congratulations to everybody on the list.
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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
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Keep re-reading this stunning poem by Naomi Shihab Nye:
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A little Jane Hirschfield for a tender, tender Wednesday.
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Modern Poetry is out today in paperback. 💋
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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.
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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...
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