Rasaq Malik Gbolahan

Rasaq Malik Gbolahan’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in journals such as Ploughshares, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Nation, and Prairie Schooner. Gbolahan received a 2015 Best of the Net Honorable Mention for his poem “Elegy,” published in One. In 2017, Rattle and Poet Lore nominated his poems for the Pushcart Prize. He was shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2017 and was a finalist for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets in 2018.