Ifeoluwa Ayandele
@ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social
"My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body," forthcoming @mooncitypress: 2024 Moon City Poetry Award Winner. PhDing+ MFA @Floridastate
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.
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.
Cover art by Elisabeth Anderson with design by Shen Chen Hsieh.
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 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.
Cover art by Elisabeth Anderson with design by Shen Chen Hsieh.
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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
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 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 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.
www.southeastreview.org/single-post/...
www.southeastreview.org/single-post/...
Please my book review for Ajibola Tolase’s “2000 Blacks” published in @southeastreview.bsky.social. Click on the link below to read. Thank you.
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Book Review: ‘Dreaming of the Possibilities’: A Review of Ajibola Tolase’s 2000 Blacks
‘Dreaming of the Possibilities’: A Review of Ajibola Tolase’s 2000 Blacksby Ìfẹ́olúwa ÀyàndéléAjibola Tolase’s 2000 Blacks invites readers into a travelogue of Black history—that is slavery, prec...
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May 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Please my book review for Ajibola Tolase’s “2000 Blacks” published in @southeastreview.bsky.social. Click on the link below to read. Thank you.
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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.
Many thanks.
April 15, 2025 at 10:53 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.
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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among great poets in this issue. Many thanks to the editors for finding my poem worthy.
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One
by Jacar Press
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April 12, 2025 at 12:15 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.
one.jacarpress.com?fbclid=IwZXh...
among great poets in this issue. Many thanks to the editors for finding my poem worthy.
one.jacarpress.com?fbclid=IwZXh...
Dear friend,
I have a nonfiction published in the latest issue of Sierra Nevada Review.
www.sierranevadareview.com/ifeoluwa-aya...
I have a nonfiction published in the latest issue of Sierra Nevada Review.
www.sierranevadareview.com/ifeoluwa-aya...
Alien | Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé — Sierra Nevada Review
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March 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Dear friend,
I have a nonfiction published in the latest issue of Sierra Nevada Review.
www.sierranevadareview.com/ifeoluwa-aya...
I have a nonfiction published in the latest issue of Sierra Nevada Review.
www.sierranevadareview.com/ifeoluwa-aya...
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going back to Juliana Spahr, always
February 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
going back to Juliana Spahr, always
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Rest in eternal peace Nikki Giovanni 🕊️
December 10, 2024 at 4:20 AM
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.
www.glass-poetry.com/chapbooks/se...
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.
www.glass-poetry.com/chapbooks/se...
December 9, 2024 at 1:36 AM
Many thanks
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Sending this around again tonight
A stunning poem of lesbian love by the legend Willyce Kim. poets.org/poem/places
Places
I dreamed you. / I waited 45 years for you
poets.org
December 6, 2024 at 5:50 AM
Sending this around again tonight
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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
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
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
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:
November 30, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Keep re-reading this stunning poem by Naomi Shihab Nye:
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A little Jane Hirschfield for a tender, tender Wednesday.
November 27, 2024 at 7:44 PM
A little Jane Hirschfield for a tender, tender Wednesday.
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Modern Poetry is out today in paperback. 💋
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Modern Poetry is out today in paperback. 💋
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I love this Xin Qiji poem, translated by @chowleen.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 5:08 AM
I love this Xin Qiji poem, translated by @chowleen.bsky.social
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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
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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By Meg Day 🙏🏽
poets.org/poem/i-am-no...
poets.org/poem/i-am-no...
i am not deaf
the way
poets.org
November 13, 2024 at 7:02 PM
By Meg Day 🙏🏽
poets.org/poem/i-am-no...
poets.org/poem/i-am-no...
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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...
November 13, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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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This is an essay on my poem "Ballad," Keats's notion of Negative Capability, and Lorca's Duende, with a prompt and a link to the original poem. I'm happy to share it with you.
I Know You Know: Diane Seuss On “Ballad,” Negative Capability, and the Duende
Christ was laid out in a glass coffin, like Snow White. I visited and re-visited him. He looked so much like my father on his deathbed.
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November 11, 2024 at 3:20 PM
This is an essay on my poem "Ballad," Keats's notion of Negative Capability, and Lorca's Duende, with a prompt and a link to the original poem. I'm happy to share it with you.