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About Bola Opaleke

Bola is a Pushcart Prize nominee. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Writers Resist, Cleaver, One, The Nottingham Review, The Puritan, The Literary Review of Canada, Sierra Nevada Review, Dissident Voice, Poetry Quarterly, The Indianapolis Review, and others. He holds a degree in City Planning. You can find him on Twitter @bolaopaleke.

2 poems by Bola Opaleke

Bola Opaleke

Nooksack Flow / photo: dre

WORDS THAT MAKE US INTO BEASTS how now can the gods not protect us from the rotten words into which our bodies melt – the swollen forest of grief where only black sunshine rises. the … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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