Saddiq Dzukogi
Saddiq Dzukogi was a resident artist with us December 4–10 2024
Saddiq Dzukogi is a Nigerian poet and assistant professor of English at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla, selected by Carolyn Forché as winner of the 2021 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the 2022 Julie Suk Award. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships from the Nebraska Art Council, Mississippi Art Commission, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, PEN America, and Ebedi International Residency. His poetry is featured in various publications,including POETRY, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Poetry London, Guernica, Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, and Prairie Schooner. He lives and writes from Starkville, Mississippi, and is at work on his next book, an epic poem, “Bakandamiya” forthcoming in fall, 2025 from the University of Nebraska Press.
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Starkville Daily News: https://www.pressreader.com/usa/starkville-daily-news/20241126/281517936675850?srsltid=AfmBOor7ILwMieoS06IRjmChJnI1PU9no8YIJq2VUNcrXAM2xwU0dIhD
Porch Talk (Podcast) - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3l4AiZCOB11Re3sRsxHANW
Examples of Recent Work by Saddiq Dzukogi
1. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/156305/ring-61095e89730c9
2. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162716/bakandamiya-6668a7dacf4c4
3. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162717/bakandamiya
4. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/159336/so-much-memory
5. https://www.128lit.org/two-poems-saddiq-dzukogi
6. https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/black-voices/there-no-scar-only-absence-saddiq-dzukogi