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Funto Omojola

Funto Omojola is a poet, performer, and visual artist. They have received fellowships from MacDowell, Cave Canem, and the Poetry Project. If I Gather Here and Shout (Nightboat Books, 2024) is Omojola’s first book.

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if joy is a politics of citation, then my mother doesn’t break down into anything   if joy is a politics of citation, then in my palms, wombs. then my mother’s tongue slurping slurping bone canal lig ament lig a ment lament me. i mean head tilted back slurping slurping ...