Othuke Umukoro is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His debut poetry collection, Fenestration, was selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Diane Seuss as the winner of the 2024 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. Fenestration will be published on September 15, 2025, by Texas Review Press.
Poetry
Summer 2025
Grit
Like everyoneelse standing on this side of the ruin,I watch as our Akan guide triesto lift the cannonball and fails.I imagine the castle’s governorwith his Edam-cheese face lookingat us from […]