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Winner, 2023 Stacy Doris Memorial Award(San Francisco State University) ✍ @cwfcreatives , @Suburbanreview1 Nature knows a little about Slave Trade @SundressPub

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@SamuelSamba10
Samuel Samba
8 months
CHAPBOOK OUT NOW!!! I am so glad to announce that my second micro chapbook NATURE KNOWS A LITTLE ABOUT SLAVE TRADE is finally out today @SundressPub .
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I am stunned beyond words to finally share that I got admitted into the University of Virginia(UVA), UNLV & Chapman University to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing. So grateful to @NotNowNicole who agreed to run a GoFundMe campaign for this cause. Link:
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Some bizarre newsssssssss here!!!!!! I am utterly amazed and beyond thrilled to have my poem "Ocean Gate" win the Vera Manuel Award for Poetry, 2023 under the Surrey Muse Art & Literature Awards(Vancouver Canada).
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Some wilder newsssssss here. I am utterly thrilled to have won the Betsy Colquitt Poetry Award(Texas.C. University) 2022/23. This is an award that have been previously won by the current U.S Poet Laureate Ada Limón, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Claire Wahmanholm amongst others.
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Some wild newssssssss here!!!! Beyond thrilled to have won the 2022 Angela C Mankiewicz Poetry Contest ✨❤ "Look Ma, my syllables are worthy again! 😊 — Kanika Ahuja
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4 months
An Adda, Common Wealth Writers Acceptance. C'monnn!!! Wait for it, gee!!! ✨🤍
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Some willddddd news here!!!!!!! I am beyond thrilled to have my poem "A Boneyard of Flesh//Post-War Trauma" off my full-length manuscript NATURE KNOWS A LITTLE ABOUT SLAVE TRADE, win the 2023 Stacy Doris Memorial Award(Fourteen Hills) San Francisco State University. ayee!!!!!!
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Some wild newssssss here!!! I am stunned beyond words to have won the 2023 Newlove Poetry Awards(Ottawa, Canada), guest-judged by Ariel Gordon. I am so grateful to the Ottawa International Writers community and the editor, Amanda Earl for this wonderful honor. What's more..
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@SamuelSamba10
Samuel Samba
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I am so thrilled to have my debut micro-chapbook "Nature knows a little about Slave Trade" selected by Nicole Oquendo, win the 2022 Chapbook Contest Editor's Choice Award(runner-up)—& for a dream space @SundressPub ✨❤ Kimonnnnnn'
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Samuel Samba
3 years
Some wild news here!!!! So thrilled to have won the @miracle_monocle Ambitious Writers Award 2021 for my poem "Anatomy of my Grief coming to me as a Hissing Thing" in her "Issue 16". Here is a link to the full issue, & the winning poem. Yay!! ✨💛
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Samuel Samba
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So thrilled to be the second prize winner for the MONO Poetry Prize 2022, judged again by the award winning poet Joelle Taylor(University of Kent). I am so grateful for her kind words & honored to be chosen amongst the longlist of brilliant minds. ayeeeeee!✨❤
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Samuel Samba
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Some wild news here!!! I am beyond thrilled to have my poem "On God's own Soil" win the Virginia Tech Center for Refugee, Migrants & Displacement Studies Annual Award, 2023(Virginia Tech University). I am grateful to the Institution for this brilliant initiative . Ayee ✨ ❤
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•Won the Vera Manuel Poetry Award (Canada) •The John Newlove Poetry Annual Award 2023(Canada) Massachusetts Poetry Festival Awards, 2023 Stacy Doris Memorial Award, 2023 Virginia Tech Center for Refugee, Migrants Annual Awards, 2023 The Betsy Colquitt Poetry Annual Award, 2023
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BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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Been pinching my skin all morning. Somehow, within a few hours - we are already more than halfway through this journey. This particular generosity has left be gobsmacked 😭 Gradually getting closer to the goal, guyyyssss!!!! GoFundMe Link:
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Samuel Samba
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I am stunned beyond words to finally share that I got admitted into the University of Virginia(UVA), UNLV & Chapman University to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing. So grateful to @NotNowNicole who agreed to run a GoFundMe campaign for this cause. Link:
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Ayeeeeeeeee! Beyond thrilled to have my poem off the NON-BINARY suite, win the Penrose Poetry Prize 2021 ✨❤ "Look Ma, my syllables are worthy again! 😊 — Kanika Ahuja
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Samuel Samba
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• So chuffed to have my manuscript "Death Rehearsal" as one of the six finalists for the Gold line Press Poetry Chapbook Contest 2022, guest-judged by Courtney Faye. ❤
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Gold Line Press
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We're excited to announce the finalists of our 2022 Poetry Chapbook Contest! Help us celebrate these finalists, whose manuscripts have been sent to judge @thecourtcase .
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Samuel Samba
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Got acceptance from Fourteen Hills, Filling Station Review & @aLongHouse . Being issue mates with @MartinsDeep1 & @bakronline @aLongHouse is definitely some HOLY TRINITY shii. C'monn. Wait for it, gee!!!!!!!! ❤
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Samuel Samba
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— "hold my grief, my hands are joy-wet" 😭 So thrilled to have won the Toronto Open Drawer Contest. YESSS!!! 🎉🎊
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Samuel Samba
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Some wilddd news here!!!!! So thrilled to have my poem "Who killed Davey Moore?" win the 2022 @River_Heron Editor's Prize. Huge thanks to the amazinggg Editors— @lylacmuse and @robbinfarr ayeeeeeeee! ✨❤
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Samuel Samba
10 months
Glad to share this personal poem "Someday, I identify as a Prairie" here @strangehorizons . So grateful to the editors & Romie Stott for being so reception to my works. Here, do read ✨❤
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Samuel Samba
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So glad to finally share my poem "Who killed Davey Moore?" which won the River Heron Editor's prize, judged by Robbin Farr & @lylacmuse Below, is the winning piece alongside the Judge's analytic commentary of two pages, which was sooo soothing —I wouldn't have left it unshared.
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A Pushcart nomination & two acceptance ✨🤗
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Glad to finally share my poem "A Boneyard of Flesh// Post-War Trauma" which won the 2023 Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award, here @14Hills - alongside a brief Q & A(interview). Grateful to the Editors. Here, do read ❤
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"I hunger in the accent of wildfire, of a country’s name wading through gunshots: the sound—a vowel in motion scolding heaven." Glad to share my poem "I, Hunger" here in the latest issue of @ApparitionLit . Here, do read ❤
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Samuel Samba
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Guyyyss!! We are unbelievably 75 percent to reaching the goal, and headed towards 3k. So grateful for all the kindness from personal quarters. Please, consider donating and sharing with your networks 🙏 GoFundMe Link:
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Samuel Samba
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I am stunned beyond words to finally share that I got admitted into the University of Virginia(UVA), UNLV & Chapman University to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing. So grateful to @NotNowNicole who agreed to run a GoFundMe campaign for this cause. Link:
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Chuffed to be on the shortlist, again for the prestigious Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize 2024, alongside brilliant brilliant writers ✨🤍 .
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Samuel Samba
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Glad to finally share my poem "On God's own Soil" which won the Virginia Tech Center for Refugee, Migrants & Displacement Studies Annual Award, 2023, here in the Roots & Resettlement Vol. 3 ❤. Grateful to be here amongst some of our finest, Timi Sanni, Martins Deep, Mobayo.
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Honoured to have my manuscript "A Country of Bones & Medieval Rot" finish as a finalist for the 2023 Orison Chapbook Prize. & now on the current longlist of the Unleash Press 2024 Book Prize. Fingers crossed 🤞🏿
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Australian Poetry Journal (APJ) said YES! ✨🤍
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Samuel Samba
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Still one of my favorite, this one!!
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quote this tweet with that poem! THAT POEM!
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I've published quite of alot of daring speculative poetry in recent time, and I'm happy to share my first ever Award Eligibility post. Here, are some of my published poems which are eligible for the @sfpoetry #Rhysling Award:
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Samuel Samba
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This made my day!!! Boyy! You mean, when they actually ask for my bio I can finally say "Google me" 😭
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Hi guyss!! We are now very close to 1k, which would make a great difference. Your kindness brought us far. Your little chip in here and there, would do even more. Please, consider donating and sharing today. Link:
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Samuel Samba
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I am stunned beyond words to finally share that I got admitted into the University of Virginia(UVA), UNLV & Chapman University to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing. So grateful to @NotNowNicole who agreed to run a GoFundMe campaign for this cause. Link:
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• So glad to be chosen as a runner-up of the First Poem Poetry Contest. Many thanks to the Judge Charles. C for deeming my work fit for this honor ✨❤
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So glad to have got an Honorable mention in the prestigious 2022 Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Contest!! Congratss to Soonest Nathaniel & Micheal Emmanuel. I am also in the company of the indefatigable @itsdbouts amongst other bright minds across the globe ✨❤
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Samuel Samba
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Every month/ scratch that, every year is a Samba's year!!! *Speaking into existence* 🙏 I am writing in the same lifetime as the new Sillerman winner @bakronline . You beat that!!!
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Brag about yourself (African creatives edition) Let’s have it. 😊
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"in between this wildness, blood strengthens your teeth, & we munch: carving out glyphs from the roughage" Glad to share my poem "In the Wild" here in the latest issue of @UncannyMagazine . Many thanks to Chimedum Ohaegbu & the editors. Here, do read ❤
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Glad to have my first nomination for the prestigious SFPA Rhysling Award ✨ Here is a summary bibliography of the speculative poems I have published from 2020 - 2024, for your readership 🫶
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Samuel Samba
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• Got acceptance(s) from two top Magazines. •Got accepted by @CV2magazine @agbowoart . @Gutter_Magazine • Got a Honourable Mention for the 2021 Betty L. Yu and Jin C.Yu Creative Writing Prize(College Category). Not this boy's work slowly becoming visible. not this boy!! ☺
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Glad to have finished as finalist for the Inaugural @QuarterlyWest alongside the almighty @nome__patrick & other amazing poets ✨💛.
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Glad to have this particular acceptance @UncannyMagazine . this is from my recent tiny experiment—Subject Lessons. you could also peep an insight from my recent interview(last year) here @suburbanreview1 ❤.
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•Honored to be a finalist of the prestigious @CV2magazine 2023 Foster Poetry Prize judged by Emily Riddle. Huge congrats to the winner Sasha Pickering ❤
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So chuffed to have my poem "The Origin of a Birthing" win 2nd place(runner up) at the A to Zoetic Poetry Contest, guest-judged by the terrific Victoria Chang. Many thanks to the brilliant editors & brain behind this platform!!!✨ ❤
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"I converse in high gifted parlance, & regurgitate my thoughts in way too many phrases: verbatim." Glad to share my poem "A Bilinguist blasphemes in Broken Accent" here in the lastest issue of Existere—A journal of Literature 42.1. Many thanks to the Editors. Here, do read ❤
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"hold a boy too long, & he spills open like bad news" Glad to share my poem "The Remote Possibilities of going Extinct" here, in the special Eavan Boland Issue of Poetry Ireland Review. Many thanks to Eoin Rogers & the team for this honor. Here, do read ❤
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joy has been asking for fresh ways to enter our bodies" —Geramee Hansley ✨❤
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"look what tarnishes this grassland: metal feel of rugged light, perishing the way a crayon self-destructs on the cardboard of doubt" Glad to share my poem "A Town this gorgeous once held Rust" here @trampset . Grateful to the editors for wonderful work❤
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4 years
Two acceptance— one from @BloodOrangeRev / Interview & something-in-progress
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Beyond thrilled to have my poem "We Happen as Exclamations!" off the tiny experiment "SUBJECT LESSONS" won the Lakefly Poetry Contest 2021 (Wisconsin). Yas!!!!!! ✨
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Seen foinnne boysss today??!!! 🤭
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Trampset acceptance ✨❤
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Glad to share my poem "A Country of Bone & Medieval Rot" which is a framework for my full-length manuscript (work-in-progress), here @IHRAF . Many thanks to the Editors. Here, do read ❤
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I have this small piece "Elegy for a Biracial Culprit" which speaks on the violence of migration, here @Suburban Review's affiliated Hill Hoist Magazine. Many thanks to Erin McFadyen & the team. Do read ❤
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Hi guysss! Just a stone's throw, a benevolent click on this - would get us to 1k plus. Your retweets and shares has helped greatly in the visibility. I appreciate. It's yet another beautiful to consider donating to this cause, and sharing 🙏 Link:
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I am stunned beyond words to finally share that I got admitted into the University of Virginia(UVA), UNLV & Chapman University to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing. So grateful to @NotNowNicole who agreed to run a GoFundMe campaign for this cause. Link:
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Glad to share my small poem "A Golden Flame// The Beheading of a Ram" off my third chapbook BIBLICAL INVASION B.C forthcoming @Bywords Ottawa, Canada, here @Abyss_Apex . This piece uses the story of the brave trio:
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• So glad to be selected as @alphabet_box Spotlight/Featured Writer for their #Issue 4, alongside a forthcoming interview. • @Lolwe_ also said YES!! to a stunning poem. Can't wait. ayeeeeeee!!✨❤
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Author's Photo '21 📷
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"growing up, I fed slowly on damnation/ & 'amazing grace' was my most small sin." Glad to share my small spec piece "Bougainvillea" here in the latest issue #22 of @thedeadlands Magazine. Many thanks the amazingg team for seeing the beauty in it ❤
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So glad to finally share my poem "We Happen as Exclamations!"—which won the 2021 Poetry Contest(Wisconsin), here in the print Issue 2 of @MeetingHouse Magazine. Many thanks to Jessica.A.Forcey & the team for giving it such a wonderful home. Here, do read! ✨💛
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"I continue to continue. Where I have been most of my life is where I'm headed."✨💛
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Got this small interview(Q&A) here @SundressPub with the beautiful Heather Domenicis, regards my recently published chapbook "NATURE KNOWS A LITTLE ABOUT SLAVE TRADE".
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Emeka must shine 🙏
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Glad to share my final publication for the year "In my Demand to Happen as a Garden" written with a line from Mohbad(Imolé, RIP), here in Issue 47 of @alacarteblanche . Grateful to the wonderful editors for their kind input. Here, do read ✨🤍
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Glad to share my small poem "Aubade with Belly Fat" written after Dr Saddiq Dzukogi, here in the Family issue of @Zoetic Press. Many thanks to the editors for seeing the beauty in this. Here, do read! ✨❤
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so glad to share this particular poem "Carrying my Father's Silence" @Trampset . here, I interrogated a silence which has been me for a while now. guess I'm quite prepared for this vulnerability. do read ❤
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Oya! Take two ✌
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Samuel Samba
3 years
My poem "Wormhole" is on Issue 44.3 of "StarLine Fiction Magazine" 💐 Many thanks to the Editor, F.J Bergmann for this amazing issue! Here, do read ✨❤
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Hi guys! So grateful for the Congratulatory message, and everyone that has shared within the short period of announcement. We are on the road to 500 already, because of your kindness. Please, consider donating today and share with your networks🙏 LINK:
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Samuel Samba
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I am stunned beyond words to finally share that I got admitted into the University of Virginia(UVA), UNLV & Chapman University to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing. So grateful to @NotNowNicole who agreed to run a GoFundMe campaign for this cause. Link:
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"nature disciplines me into the longitude of a hand—outstretched, knifing the heat. Glad to share my poem "On Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution" here in the Issue one of @HeartlinesSpec . Many thanks to the editors for seeing the beauty in this work. Here, do read ❤
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North Dakota Quaterly Acceptance 💛!!!
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Glad to share my small spec piece "An Orchard of failed Science" here @strangehorizons . Many thanks to Romie Stott for her kind words. Here, do read ✨❤
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Glad to share this old poem "Ballistic Sonnet//In the Hierarchy of G-Major" here in South word(Munster Literature) Issue 45, which speaks to the moral stink & decadence that has eaten deep into the military system. Here, do read 🤍 📷: Dr Patrick. W
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Category: nwóke oma ❤
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Glad to share two of my poems off the suite FEMME which speaks to the intricacy of motherhood, here in the latest issue of @IseleMagazine . Many thanks to the amazingg @MsOlisakwe & the team for this wonderful offering. The cover art 🎨🔥 Here, do read ❤
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All my guys on Uni Cardigans. Wtf!!!! 😭
@MartinsDeep1
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It's such a beautiful day to finally quote this tweet I made last year: I'm overjoyed to announce that I got an offer from @uofmemphis to pursue an MFA in creative writing. 🥹
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"In the year without a country I found you and took root" 🤍 —Sanam Sheriff
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Drop the most iconic pic of you
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"History is painted by the one who thrives. Keep your paints wet. Trust me, I have things to say." — Richard Siken ✨🤍
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Glad to share my small spec piece "Ars Poetica" here in the latest issue of University of San Franscisco's owned @invisiblecitySF . ❤ Many thanks to the editors for seeing the beauty in this. Here, do read
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@SamuelSamba10
Samuel Samba
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'Son, hear me. whatever words fashioned against you has ceased to be in vogue.’ 💙 - Nnadi
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@SamuelSamba10
Samuel Samba
8 months
"Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.” ❤ — Mary Oliver
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@SamuelSamba10
Samuel Samba
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Bring am, my gee! This year must soft 🙏
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@SamuelSamba10
Samuel Samba
2 years
• So chuffed to be a finalist for the Snarl's 2022 Poetry Contest, guest-edited by Diana Glancy. •Got an Honorable mention for the 2022 Christopher Hewitt Awards in Poetry. • Sweet Acceptance(s) from @strangehorizons @NatBrut @TheMaineReview @stormcellar & elsewhere.
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@SamuelSamba10
Samuel Samba
3 years
Glad to share this piece "My Father's Paranoid from various Angles" here in the Agbowo magazine. A maths approach to the irrational fear/dominance in most parents ☺ Here, do read ✨ ❤
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@SamuelSamba10
Samuel Samba
9 months
The Poet/ The Poem
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@TaylorByas3
Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.
9 months
The poet / the poetry
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@SamuelSamba10
Samuel Samba
3 years
Glad to share this poem "Haruspicy" in the recent "Black Alive & looking at You" issue of @CV2magazine . A short playful piece on my vulnerability with earpiece: an asset turn accessory.  What has been my luckiest crowd-control since the output of friends.☺ Here, do read✨❤
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@SamuelSamba10
Samuel Samba
7 months
"I am trying to be a thing that comes back with enough water" ❤
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@SamuelSamba10
Samuel Samba
3 years
"I parent my body into adopting a boy skinny as me barely shaved, with an accent for grief: a language blacks knew before the knew their skin" My old poem is on Cordite Poetry. Here, do read ❤!
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Samuel Samba
3 months
Being under the tutulege of Professor Rita Dove, Professor Lisa Russ Spaar and Professor Kiki Petrosino amongst other faculty member/cohorts at the University of Virginia has always been a dream, and this is a beautiful opportunity to learn and reinvent my poetry.
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Samuel Samba
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"darkness is a manner of language. Christ: a solemn voice note in the lexicon of grief." Glad to share this small piece "Missionary" here @thewildumbrella , off my third chapbook forthcoming @bywordsdotca in October, alongside a brief Q&A. Do read ❤
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@SamuelSamba10
Samuel Samba
3 years
"I'm forced to cram you for keepsake. that way, we beat the Universe the University way, making hostel of our infested bodies." ☺ Glad to have my poem "Joint Custody" off the tiny experiment "SUBJECT LESSONS" in Issue #25 of the Widener University Journal. Here, do read ✨ ❤
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Samuel Samba
3 years
Glad to share my poem 'Femdom' off the poetry suite Non-binary Worship, here @beestungmag . Many thanks to @petitobjetb for being so receptive towards this work 😊 A wildly sensitive piece here. Do read!! ✨ ❤
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Samuel Samba
2 years
So glad to share my poem "The Origin of Birthing" which won 2nd place(runner up) in the A to @ZoeticPress Poetry Contest, guest-judged by the terrific Victoria Chang. Here, I wrote on the intricacy of motherhood. Do read ✨❤
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Samuel Samba
6 months
acrylic 🎨
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@SamuelSamba10
Samuel Samba
7 months
Nwoke na ife!!! 🤍🫵🏿
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@SamuelSamba10
Samuel Samba
3 years
Glad to have my piece "Venom Extractor" on Issue 12 of the Awakened Voices, which borders solely on domestic violence. My shortest attempt at a poem. Do read ❤
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@SamuelSamba10
Samuel Samba
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I.D me.
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