Ayokunle Falomo

Ayokunle Falomo is Nigerian, American, a TEDx speaker, and the author of African, American (New Delta Review, 2019) and two self-published collections: KIN.DREAD (2017) and thread, this wordweaver must! (2014). His work has been featured on/in The New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Houston Public Media, Write About Now, Michigan Quarterly Review, Glass Mountain, Berkeley Poetry Review, Santa Fe Writers Project, and The Texas Review among others. A recipient of fellowships from Vermont Studio Center and MacDowell, his poems have been selected as finalists or winners for Fourteen Hills Press’ Stacy Doris Memorial Award, Flypaper Magazine‘s Music Poetry Contest, The OffBeat‘s Poetry Contest, and Nimrod Journal‘s The Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from University of Houston, a Specialist in School Psychology degree from Sam Houston State University and is currently an MFA (Poetry) student at the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program.

Still it weighs on me—this life—but thank you, what now makes me attend to it.

How to Account for the Origin & Four Minutes, Thirty Three Seconds

Issue 27

Fiction and Poetry

Of each thought when—like an animal— / It leaps, the mind, from branch to branch. /

It Burns the Blood Like Powdered Glass

Issue 26

Fiction and Poetry

Meadowthis, and -that, until | Windswept. All this:—what is, | if it can be, expected—love,

Ayokunle Falomo

The Day After a Spontaneous Trip With Friends

How to Account for the Origin & Four Minutes, Thirty Three Seconds

It Burns the Blood Like Powdered Glass