Saddiq Dzukogi is a Nigerian poet and assistant professor of English at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), 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 Arts Council, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, PEN America, and Ebedi International Residency. His poetry is featured in various magazines including Poetry, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Poetry London, Guernica, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, and Prairie Schooner. Dzukogi lives and writes in Starkville, Mississippi.
Extinction
Summer 2024
The Repetition Is Appropriate Because What’s Being Denied Is Country
The Kenyon Review · “The Repetition Is Appropriate . . .” by Saddiq Dzukogi Darwish turns in his grave, the house where he is not denied a country, where olive […]