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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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Time to preorder My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Poetry Award! Coming in early January—reserve your copy today!

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My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body
Poems The 2024 Moon City Poetry Award 978-0-913785-71-3 Paper January 2026
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December 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Time to preorder My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Poetry Award! Coming in early January—reserve your copy today!

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My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body
Poems The 2024 Moon City Poetry Award 978-0-913785-71-3 Paper January 2026
www.uapress.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Time to preorder My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by
@ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, winner of the 2024
@mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Poetry Award! Coming in early January—reserve your copy today!

www.uapress.com/product/my-f...
My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body
Poems The 2024 Moon City Poetry Award 978-0-913785-71-3 Paper January 2026
www.uapress.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Cover reveal: My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, winner of the 2024 Moon City Poetry Award! This book will be out from @mooncitypress.bsky.social on January 6. Preorder link coming soon!

Art by Elisabeth Anderson with design by Shen Chen Hsieh.
November 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Cover reveal! Here's My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by Ifeoluwa Ayandele, the winner of the 2024 Moon City Poetry Award! This book will be out from Moon City Press on January 6, 2026. Preorder link coming soon!

Cover art by Elisabeth Anderson with design by Shen Chen Hsieh.
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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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
July 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I reviewed Okwudili Nebeolisa ‘s Terminal Maladies sometimes ago and it is thrilling to see it published @SoutheastReview. Please click on the link below and read it. Thank you.

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Book Review: ‘Ignore the Bleeding’: A Review of Okwudili Nebeolisa’s Terminal Maladies by Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé
‘Ignore the Bleeding’: A Review of Okwudili Nebeolisa’s Terminal Maladies by Ìfẹ́olúwa ÀyàndéléNebeolisa, in this debut poetry collection, Terminal Maladies, confronts the darkness that engulfs h...
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June 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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.
April 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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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by Jacar Press
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April 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Dear friend,

I have a nonfiction published in the latest issue of Sierra Nevada Review.

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Alien | Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé — Sierra Nevada Review
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March 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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going back to Juliana Spahr, always
February 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Rest in eternal peace Nikki Giovanni 🕊️
December 10, 2024 at 4:20 AM
December 10, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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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December 9, 2024 at 1:36 AM
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Sending this around again tonight
December 6, 2024 at 5:50 AM
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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
December 4, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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Keep re-reading this stunning poem by Naomi Shihab Nye:
November 30, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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A little Jane Hirschfield for a tender, tender Wednesday.
November 27, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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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.🖤
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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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November 23, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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Modern Poetry is out today in paperback. 💋
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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I love this Xin Qiji poem, translated by @chowleen.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 5:08 AM
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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.
November 15, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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November 14, 2024 at 7:43 PM