With friends In Kingston Ontario. I don't know why anyone would be anti-coffee! Need to get these guys on the side of the pure arabica!

Thanks so much for your kind words and support always.✨✨✨🌸

Yes man!

Zohran!

Thanks to Catherine Owen for this generous review of my book. It’s such an honour when someone takes the time to read and respond to your work, and you know that your work has reached beyond the void. brilliantwomeninc.blogspot.com/2025/11/all-...

I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus. Sound—at the Interregnum. Glen Coulthard Madeleine Thien Canisia Lubrin Immanuel Wilkins Whew. What they did!!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...

TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on Nigeria's power outage problem, which "did not start today, and its experience of endemic national outages is part of its history" flaminghydra.com/r/5250f9c0?m...

Thanks to @ualbertapress.bsky.social for hosting us. 🙏🏾✨

Very grateful, and felt deeply honored to be questioned by my teacher and a genius poet Marilyn Dumont.

I Got Tenure and Now I Can’t Seem to Form Simple Declarative Sentences www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-g...

So many people are suffering. The king shits on them and destroys the house the slaves built.

Posters are up! Very much looking forward to this book party with @lornedaniel.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/dual-book-...

Launch was great.✨ Thank you @newestpress.bsky.social @jenbdelisle.bsky.social

Mood and haul✨🪶

Tomorrow night! I’m thrilled to be hosting the launch of @jidesalawu.bsky.social’s wonderful collection. I have a lot of questions lined up to ask him!

Have you registered? We are going to make some necessary sounds — together. Join us. In person or online. October 30. Sound—at the Interregnum. events.yorku.ca/events/the-a...

TODAY: No newsletter today in observation of Indigenous People's Day! Have a meaningful holiday and we'll be back tomorrow!

Now crowdfunding Bible Project to celebrate the president's son fortieth birthday. Jesus take the wheel😁

One who, like you, has been in the game for years, knows that this crowdfunding project requires strategy and calculation. You may have thought about the risks involved in improving the intellectual life of your country... Latest for @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/how-to-crowd...

TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on the queenly appraoch to crowdfunding for a national library. "A bragging point for the nobles in your court to say, 'Oh yes! Ten million to this!' Perhaps they will even compete with one another in their generosity." flaminghydra.com/how-to-crowd...

Double delight. Some beauty.

"I broke into a house I thought abandoned & wrote my first poem on its walls" — Aldo Amparán, "In My Terrible Years"

✨ In conversation: @jidesalawu.bsky.social and Marilyn Dumont at Henderson Hall at the University of Alberta. You won't want to miss this discussion with two brilliant poets! Where: Henderson Hall at the University of Alberta (North Campus) When: October 29, 2025 2-4pm buff.ly/MMD5eq7

🎉 Happy Pub Day!!🎉 to @jidesalawu.bsky.social and his new collection CONTRABAND BODIES, available now at a bookstore near you and should be on any book lovers fall TBR pile! #NeWestPress #ContrabandBodies #NewRelease #CrowSaidPoetry #ReadLocal #BuyCanadian buff.ly/4Yz5GKb

Edmonton friends, Jide Salawu launches Contraband Bodies at Audreys Books on October 16. This is his debut poetry collection. Congratulations, Jide! https://bit.ly/46OhQ0s @jidesalawu.bsky.social @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social

Question I will be asking @hystericalblkns.bsky.social this week is, how does she write so smooth--sentences clean as bones? If you are in Edmonton neighbourhood this is not an event to miss.🪶

🚀 YOU ARE INVITED to the launch of CONTRABAND BODIES, the brand new collection from @jidesalawu.bsky.social! When: Oct 16, 2025 Where: Doors at 6:30pm @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social (10702 Jasper Ave) Snacks: Of course! #NeWestPress #BookLaunch #ContrabandBodies #Fall2025 #ReadLocal #BuyCanadian

Very excited to announce… cue drumroll… the NEW BOOK IS ALMOST HERE!! Look at the beautiful cover by @caitlinpress.bsky.social #writingcommunity #amwriting #books #authors #poetry #poetrycommunity

Very excited for the release of this collection. Jide’s writing is so strong and atmospheric

Since my poetry apprenticeship began, I have taken literary tutelage under many. Such graceful words about Contraband Bodies.

See who is coming to EFS!

A glimpse of beauty in the English Garden, Winnipeg.

It looks even gorgeous than I thought. This book will definitely give your shelf a new life. I promise. Contraband Bodies is a poetic imaginary of migration from below.

✨ Fall Books are coming soon!✨ We're so excited for this amazing list! Which book are you most looking forward to? #NeWestPress #Fall2025 #NewRelease #ABbooks #CanadianLiterature #CanLit #ReadLocal #BuyLocal #ReadCanadian #BuyCanadian buff.ly/nIdm2O1

Another sad and illuminating story about trash fake art... made this time by a real person

My latest newsletter for @flaminghydra.com interrogates the life of a literary hoaxer. It is worth ringing to ears that writing about gender, sexuality, or Blackness is not a mere aesthetic choice for Afro-Canadian writer! flaminghydra.com/the-poetry-s...

FLAMING HYDRA!!! Jídé Salawu @jidesalawu.bsky.social investigates a faux-Nigerian literary hoax, and Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social takes in an art exhibit flaminghydra.com/issue-364/

TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on the boring exploits of literary hoaxer Aaron Barry, who "seems to believe the outlook for publishing is grim, and that talented writers from the majority and hegemonic classes are barred from opportunities to publish" flaminghydra.com/the-poetry-s...

Thank you @newestpress.bsky.social

We have got a cover for Contraband Bodies

Divisions on a Sugarcane www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The vibrant souks of the Medina may sink into my skull like an old knife. If I die, my soul will roam this continent with pleasure, along its fine shorelines.... thewalrus.ca/i-will-retur...

I am glad to have a new poem in @thewalrus.ca latest issue. This poem was written with my Moroccan friend, Houcien Abbouazza, in mind. We both waded thru America together in 2020. Grateful to @cstarnino.bsky.social for finding it worthy. Also coming forth from Contraband Bodies in Fall 2025.