Romeo Oriogun is the author of Sacrament of Bodies and The Gathering of Bastards. A finalist for the Lambda Award for Gay Poetry, The Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature, National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and the Kingsley Tufts Award, he is the winner of the Julie Suk Award, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize, and The Nigeria Prize for Literature. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and others. He has also received fellowships and support from Harvard University, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Oregon Institute for Creative Research, the IIE-Artist Protection Fund, University of Iowa, and Iowa State University. A juror for the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, he currently works in the English department at Florida Atlantic University as an Assistant Professor of English.

Other poems on the web by Romeo Oriogun:
"Griot of Strange Places"
Six poems
"From Darkness into Light"
Three poems
Two poems
"The Kingdom of Good Hope"
"Pink Club"
Three poems
"What the World Won't Show Us"

One
Editors: Chera Hammons * Jeff Hardin * Edison Jennings * Debra Kaufman * Stephanie Levin * Sandy Longhorn * Sharon McDermott * Al Maginnes
Other poems by One in Verse Daily:
May 26, 2025:   "Poem for a pet bird" by Jan FitzGerald
May 17, 2025:   "If There Is a Field" by Erin Wilson
May 16, 2025:   "The Poisoned Aquifer" by Jenna Le

Home 
Archives  Web Weekly Features  Support Verse Daily  About Verse Daily  FAQs  Submit to Verse Daily 

Copyright © 2002-2025 Verse Daily All Rights Reserved