Speaking of Which 8 pleading for air horrific criminal justice system racial animus a cummerbund stanchions paucity of fairness an ostentation of suffering a recurrent illegitimacy charred chandelier three doves on a roof miniature wrecks of rotted speeches cracks in the porches thoroughness of american carnage charcoal in the copula buckets mocking a plinth beeswax …
The Stance On the path to the morning that stands over her. The way he feels wouldn’t change the stance of this weather. There’s no way you can separate the pebbles from the dew. Slow Motion To lean back into those nervous lunches Maybe I just love being in the hot tub with you …
Mbari 13 That part of the narrative that has the abrupt reversals of sparrows in high heels. The hallway and the staircase went to hell. Each bliss contains life contains death. A gunslinger of white-washed walls. These red targets are playing backgammon. Where is that guy now? Jide Obi is still talking about front page …
Uche Nduka was born in Nigeria in the 1960s and is bilingual in Igbo and English. His poetic work has also been translated into German, Finnish, Italian, Dutch, and Romanian. After living in Germany and Holland, he moved to the United States in 2007, where he has been teaching and publishing ever since, as well …
Facing You is a collection of love lyrics, as well as an exploration of what goes into making the public and private self, from acclaimed Nigerian American poet Uche Nduka. Passionate and erotic, Facing You resists being hermetically sealed within the relationship, and is subject to the intrusions of “the dubious world” war, exile, protest, and police violence …
Uche Nduka and Sophia Dahlin: Celebrating City Lights Spotlights Series Vol. 19 & 20. Uche Nduka reading from Facing You, Spotlight Series No. 19, and Sophia Dahlin reading from Natch, Spotlight Series No. 20. Uche Nduka is an itinerant poet and professor living in Brooklyn. He was born in Nigeria, was raised bilingual in Igbo …
Uche Nduka and Sophia Dahlin at The Poetry Center on February 11 at 7pm Pacific Time Read More »
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2020/04/the-beige-notes My poetry is open to everything. Sort of. I write so you can see there is a world outside the page/screen. Breaking my own rules and habits is how I work. Like rippling waves: the music that irrigates the writing of a poem. The ferment of each poet seems to be a contentious subject. …
”[…] Ehkä vesiliirto ohjaa meitä. Se ei ole surullista eikä katkeraa. […]” (Uche Nduka) ”[…] Edes kuviteltuja kesäpäiviä ei koskaan voi katsella myöhemmin kylliksi hidastettuna.” (Katriina Ranne) Runodialogiteos Nosta minut ja laske yhteen sai kipinänsä afrikkalaisen lyriikan antologiasta Korallia ja suolakiteitä (Poesia 2015). Sen toimittaja Katriina Ranne vaihtoi sähköpostiviestejä Uche Ndukan kanssa, mikä johti säkeiden jakamiseen harvakseltaan …
Kristiania is proud to announce the publication of Uche Nduka’s collection of poems Living in Public. In Nduka’s Living in Public, the spheres of daily living, history, politics and love are not separated. In this book the sensual is sacred. The poetry is both understated and confrontational. Complacency is anathema to this long poem that passionately unfolds …
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2017/04/arc-handle The poem is not the route to anything. It is the route. Endless. So a poem has to be written whether by word or by silence. And I want to be released from the obligations of definition. Somehow a poem must have its way with the poet or else it will grow bored with …