Ugonna-Ora Owoh

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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Ugonna-Ora Owoh

May 28th, 2020

I’m a citizen of several things at once, / as concern as they own me more than myself.

Ugonna-Ora Owoh is a femme-queer Nigerian poet and model. He is a recipient of a 2018 Young Romantics/ keat Shelley prize and a 2019 Erbacce Prize. He is an Editor choice winner of a 2019 Stephen A Dibiase International poetry prize. His recent poems are in The Southampton Review, Jalada Africa, The Journal of Compressed Art, The Malahat Review, The Matador Review, The Puritan, Frontier Poetry, Crab Fat Magazine, Confingo Magazine, and elsewhere. He is featured in Pride Magazine and Puerto Del Sol Black Voices series. He is a staff reader at Helen literary magazine and The Malahat Review.