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Uche Peter Umez
@uumez.bsky.social
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Learner, writer, reader, walker
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Join us for the launch of Beyond Touch Sites at Owl's Nest Books, Calgary, on May 22 at 7:00 PM.
May 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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jidesalawu.bsky.social
New stuff from @uumez.bsky.social

poets.ca/unmoving-by-...
"Unmoving" by Uchechukwu Umezurike - League of Canadian Poets
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "Unmoving" by Uchechukwu Umezurike.
poets.ca
April 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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toluini.bsky.social
And a save-the-date for if you’re in Calgary on May 6: Double Launch of UNRAVEL and Nick Thran’s EXISTING MUSIC. 7 PM at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social
Event poster with an orange background featuring dotted wavy patterns. Two book covers are presented side-by-side: Nick Thran’s "Existing Music," and Tolu Oloruntoba’s “Unravel”. Other text on the cover: DOUBLE LAUNCH TUESDAY, MAY 6 AT 7 PM SHELF LIFE BOOKS
April 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
uumez.bsky.social
Our book cover is out...
you can now pre-order: griotslounge.ca/product/plea...
March 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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wordsweaver.bsky.social
I’m so looking forward to reading with Zilla Jones at this event next week. Both our novels come out next month!
March 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
uumez.bsky.social
Join us next Thursday, noon. Register here:
events.ucalgary.ca/arts/english...

@wordsweaver.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
uumez.bsky.social
Please join us next Thursday, March 6, 2025 at p.m. as Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills give a talk on creative nonfiction, titled 'Organic Nonfiction: heart, brain, skin'.

#pagethoy

@ucalgary.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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new poem from @uumez.bsky.social - Congrats Uche!

poets.ca/in-the-dark-...
"In the Dark" by Uchechukwu Umezurike - League of Canadian Poets
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "In the Dark" by Uchechukwu Umezurike.
poets.ca
February 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
uumez.bsky.social
Please join us this Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Shelf Life Books as we chat about short stories and our creative processes.

#shortstories
#yyc
#literature
February 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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ucalgarypress.bsky.social
Our histories live in our bones. Our bones are made of history. Our bones remember.

Bonememory. Coming April 2025.
An image of the book cover of Bonememory by Anna Veprinksa accompanied by the quote "Here is a poet who knows all too well that language is here to wake us up, and she does it playfully, tenderdly, and unabashedly, and with a style that is all her own," credited to Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic.
January 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
uumez.bsky.social
Today is the pub day of Wish Maker by Griots Lounge Publishing Canada & @bibiukonu.bsky.social. Middle Grade (8-13). Join Ebele and the eccentric stranger on a "magical" sail down the River Urashi.

utpdistribution.com/978173869937...

#childrensbooks
January 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Please join us as we @toluini.bsky.social, @sjonespoet.bsky.social and Iheoma read our poetry on Feb 20th at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, @ualbertapress.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
uumez.bsky.social
...now available in bookstores near you...

@bibiukonu.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Please join us for this lecture by Dr. Paul Ugor on February 5, 2025 at 1 p.m. @ucalgary.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
uumez.bsky.social
Grateful to have my poetry book, there's more, on the Edmonton bestseller list for the 5th time...

@University of Alberta Press
@Audreys Book
@Magpie Books
@Book Publishers Association of Alberta
November 21, 2024 at 8:53 PM
uumez.bsky.social
my latest publication on disability and masculinity in DM Aderibigbe's poetry

#disability #masculinity #poetry

#LiverpoolUniversityPress

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/jlcds/18/4
Contents | Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 18, 4
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 8:40 PM
uumez.bsky.social
my co-authored publication on interspecies relationality in Nawal El Sadaawi's novel:
journals.upress.ufl.edu/jgps/article...

#animalstudies #postcoloniallitarture #interspecies #relationality
“The Face of the Buffalo”: Interspecies Relationality in Nawal El Saadawi’s God Dies by the Nile  | Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies
journals.upress.ufl.edu
November 14, 2024 at 8:36 PM