Return to Top of Page
African Poetry Book Fund
Menu

‘Gbenga Adeoba

Winner of the 2018 Sillerman Prize for African Poetry

‘Gbenga Adeoba is a graduate fellow at the University of Iowa. Born in Nigeria, he has published work in Oxford Poetry, Pleiades, Salamander, Poet Lore, African American Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He is the author of the chapbook “Here Is Water,” included in New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita), and his full-length debut, Exodus won the 2018 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry.

By ‘Gbenga Adeoba

New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita)

Exodus

Here is Water by 'Gbenga Adeoba

Here Is Water