The Poet and the Poem 2020-21 Series

Featured Omowole Jesse N. Alexander

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Omowole Jesse N. Alexander holds a Master of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from Howard University. His poetry has won second place in the First Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Zero Hunger in the First World Food Day 2018 Contest, and placed as a finalist in the 1999 Paterson Literary Review's Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest. He has been featured at Words out Loud Virtual Reading, Evil Grin, the Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church's Annual Poetry Service, The Knitting Factory, Groove Drops, and the Sumei Multidisciplinary Center. His work has appeared in Free Black Space: Content and Code for those Living in the Black, Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora, Sojourners Magazine, The Drumming Between Us: Black Love & Erotic Poetry, and Drumvoices Revue: A Confluence of Literary, Cultural & Vision Arts

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