Poetry Reading Series: Ep 16

WELCOME! to the final episode of Season 1 of the POETRY READING SERIES.

In this final episode, we will be closing with a bang!- today, we feature three super talented writers, poets and literary icons:

-First, Ladan Osman gives an ethereal rendition of two poems: “After the Photograph” and “think of me as your mother”

Ladan Osman was born in Somalia. She earned a BA at Otterbein College and an MFA at the University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers. Her chapbook, Ordinary Heaven, appears in Seven New Generation African Poets (Slapering Hol Press, 2014). Her full-length collection The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) won the Sillerman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Apogee, The Normal School, Prairie Schooner, Transition Magazine, and Waxwing. 


-Second, Saddiq Dzukogi reads his poem “Summer in the prairie”

Saddiq Dzukogi was born in Minna, Nigeria and is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla (University of Nebraska Press, 2021). His poems have been featured in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast and Ploughshares among others. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he serves as an assistant  poetry editor of Prairie Schooner. 
The poem was published in New York Quarterly.

-Lastly, the pianist-poet Echezonachukwu Nduka reads “Jazz Abibiman”, a poem of his first published in Isele magazine (The Reborn Issue).

Echezonachukwu Nduka, poet & classical pianist, is the author of Chrysanthemums for Wide-eyed Ghosts (Griots Lounge: 2018) & Waterman (Griots Lounge: 2020). His work has appeared in Saraba Magazine, Jalada Africa, Bakwa Magazine, Transition, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, The Indianapolis Review, Bombay Review, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry Vol. II, and elsewhere. His debut poetry collection, Chrysanthemums for Wide-eyed Ghosts, was shortlisted for the Pan-African Writers Association (PAWA) Poetry Prize.
Official Website: www.artnduka.com