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Michael Imossan
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Michael Imossan is a poet/writer with an award-winning poetry chapbook “For the Love of Country and Memory” (poetrycolumnnd, 2022) as well as the gazelle “A Prelude to Caving”. He is the winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, 2024.
Hello guys, I have a poem in the recent Issue (63.3) of Prism International.

"O sweet camus, if one must imagine sisyphus happy then one should imagine Icarus fulfilled. I see the nakedness of my lover and all I want to do is dissolve before it."

Please do read.
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Hello guys,

I am excited to let you know that the cover for my Sillerman winning collection “All that Refuses to Die” is out & available for preorder.

Link: nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/97814…

Read more about it on Brittle Paper:

brittlepaper.com/2025/10/cover-�
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Poems in Prairie Schooner.
October 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The Nigerian NewsDirect PoetryColumn-NND, in partnership with ANA-OAU Book and Arts Festival has published the winning entries of the poetry competition:

nigeriannewsdirect.com/all-Adesiyan Oluwapelumi

nigeriannewsdirect.com/parrot-town/

nigeriannewsdirect.com/rilkes-sweet...
August 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Hey guys,

Thanks to the editor at Luminary Lines Magazine, I have two poems up. You can read them and other wonderful poems from wonderful poems via the link;

luminarylines.ng/category/poetr…

Thank you 🤗
June 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It was beautiful facilitating a workshop at Akwaibom where I taught poets and poetry enthusiasts the miracle and magic of poetry.

link to pictures below;

nigeriannewsdirect.com/photos-writing… PHOTOS: WRITING OUTSIDE STRUCTURE WORKSHOP WITH MICHAEL IMOSSAN - Nigerian NewsDirect
June 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
NEW POEM ALERT ‼️‼️

Hey guys,

Thanks to the editors at Inscape Journal, my poem “Mercy is all the Body Wants” has been published in the journal’s winter issue:

inscape.byu.edu/2025/04/10/m...

Thank you for reading.
April 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Glad to have edited the Poetryclub Udus anthology alongside Abdulkareem and Su’eddie Agema.

Also glad to have a poem from my Sillerman Poetry Prize Semifinalist collection “Broken in Three Places” here.

Wrote the poem 3 years ago.

sevhage.com/2025/02/10/poe…
February 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Got my copy of @sonofolokun.bsky.social’s latest collection.

Can’t wait to dig in!!
December 11, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Glad to have been accepted as a HUES SCHOLAR. It’s been a wonderful experience learning from @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social so far. Thanks to @thehellebore.bsky.social for putting this together. Thanks to Maria Picone for the support, I really appreciate. 🥹🥹🥹
August 27, 2024 at 5:40 AM
Hello friend,

My piece “Eden”, written after Logan February is part of the Sans.Press’s “Another name for darkness” anthology

Thanks to the editors, especially Paula as they were so kind to me and gentle with my work.

I currently have the Epub/PDF not the print so here goes:
December 9, 2023 at 6:06 PM
Hello friends,

My poem “Southern Kaduna” has been awarded an honourable mention for the IHRAF Creators of Justice Awards. Congratulations to my brother Chiwenite for the mention.

Link to the full poem: static1.squarespace.com/static/5f91fef…
November 26, 2023 at 7:12 PM
I have my poems in the just released issue of Ake Review.

Photo credit: Elisha

Also, I went on a meet and gist with Jakky Bankong-Obi. It was surreal and therapeutic.

Photo credit: Anon.
November 25, 2023 at 3:28 PM