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Eleanor Wilner / Photo by J. J. Tiziou / Academy of American Poets
Eleanor Wilner is a much-recognized member of the American literary community, long active in the practice of poetry––writing…
Chibueze Darlington Anuonye
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May 6, 2025Kwame Dawes / Courtesy of Blue Flower Arts Kwame Dawes, who was until recently the Glenna Luschei Editor-in-Chief of Prairie Schooner, served the magazine for thirteen years. He broug…
January 28, 2025Ọlábísí Àjàlá on his scooter / Wikipedia Nigerian journalist Mashood Ọlábísí Àjàlá (1934–1999), whose name became synonymous with the word “traveler” due to his reputation for wanderlust, devotedl…
September 17, 2024James Baldwin, whose hundredth birthday we recently celebrated, once declared that besides bearing witness to America’s perennial and intolerable abuse of its Black and colored citizens, his vision as…
Photo of Timothy Schaffert by Michael Lionstar I had coffee with one of Nebraska’s bookbinders a few months ago. A meeting I remember with gratitude. A gifted workman, Kevin started his caree…
March 26, 2024Rigoberto González / Photo by Mahsa Hojjati Recently, I scheduled a zoom call with my friends Bright Ikenna Uwandu and Anthony Chibueze Ukwuoma with the cryptic agenda of “catching up.” The meetin…
Photo by UNL Photography Chigozie Obioma, a Nigerian writer and professor of creative writing at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, took the literary world by surprise in 2015 when his debut nove…
July 31, 2023Photo by Moussa Kane “A Soul of Small Places,” by Mame Bougouma Diene and Woppa Diallo, made history recently when it emerged as the first jointly conceived story shortlisted for the Caine P…
July 27, 2023Photo by Lorraine Kinnear Tlotlo Tsamaase’s science fiction “Peeling Time (Deluxe Edition),” which asserts a feminist agency and voice in a patriarchal and oppressive speculative world…
July 24, 2023Photo by Oluwafikunmi Kilanko Among the shortlisted short stories for this year’s edition of the Caine Prize for African writing is Yejide Kilanko’s “This Tangible Thing,” which narrates a ch…
July 20, 2023The first week of July, the Caine Prize for African Writing released its shortlist for this year’s edition of the prize. Among the nominated short stories is Ekemini Pius’s “Daughters, By Our Hands,…
January 9, 2023Sarah Ladipo Manyika is a writer of novels, short stories, and essays translated into several languages. She is author of the best-selling novel In Dependence (2008) and the multipl…
