Ọ B Á F Ẹ́ M I T H A N N I
Biography
Ọbáfẹ́mi Thanni is a poet whose works of poetry and fiction have received Pushcart Prize nominations.
An alumnus of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study's Writers' Workshop,
his works have appeared in the 20.35 Anthology, Lolwe, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, Wildness, Oyster River Pages,
SAND, Parentheses Journal, Contemporary Verse 2 and elsewhere.
He was a shortlistee for the 2023 Public Space Writing Fellowship,
2022 Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize and was honourably mentioned by the Berlin Writing Prize in 2022.
A former poetry editor at Chestnut Review, he spends his time between the cities of Ibadan, Abuja and Lucille,
making attempts at beauty.
P O E T R Y
Poetry
2023
Imbiza Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 6; August, 2023.
2022
20.35 Africa New Poet Interview Series, Curated by Olúwatamílọ́re Ọ̀shọ́; December, 2022.
20.35 Africa Anthology, Vol. 5, Guest-Edited by Sara Elkamel & Bhion Achimba; September, 2022.
Blessed is the Past, Most Eternal, Most Merciful
20.35 Anthology, Vol. 5, Guest-Edited by Sara Elkamel & Bhion Achimba; September, 2022.
Contemporary Verse 2, Vol. 45, No. 2; Fall, 2022.
Contemporary Verse 2, Vol. 45, No. 2; Fall, 2022.
SAND, Issue 24; June, 2022.
The miracle of a hurt undone
Finalist, Lumiere Review’s Poetry Contest, Issue 9; June, 2022.
Wildness, Issue No. 29; April, 2022.
Orison Anthology, Best Spiritual Literature Nomination, Parentheses Journal, Issue 13; Spring, 2022.
2021
Portrait of meaning as a horseman
SprinNg, We are Deathless: An Afropoetry Anthology, Edited by Wale Ayinla and Kanyinsola Olurunnisola; November, 2020.
& so we say, I cannot come and go and kill myself
The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Volume 12, Issue 4; Fall, 2021.
Leavings Lit Magazine, Issue 2.5; August, 2021.
Ode to The Line Between Longing and Arousal
SprinNg, To Borrow Screams from the Atmosphere, An Afro-Eros Anthology, Edited by Jide Badmus and Oyindamola Shoola; July, 2021.
Alternate ending with bloodless dress
Pushcart Prize Nomination, Featured Poet, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, Issue 31; July, 2021.
Outside Eden every sweetness is the fruit of disobedience
perhappened mag, Issue 10, Guest-Edited by Dr. Taylor Byas; April, 2021.
A recent study on blades finds that it is not the edge, but context, that cuts
Augment Review, Issue II; April, 2021.
Ask the broken boy to dance, & he says
Miniskirt Magazine, Issue 2; April, 2021.
My mouth holds a funeral for the loss of words
Wrongdoing Magazine, Issue 1; Spring, 2021.
Best of the Net Anthology Nomination, Wrongdoing Magazine, Issue 1; Spring, 2021.
Impostor Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 1; March, 2021.
Ode to the woman of a lineage of fire
perhappened mag, Issue 8; February, 2021.
IceFloe Press, New International Voices; February, 2021.
2020
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The African Writers Review, 2020.
P R O S E
prose
2023
The Child in the Field Bears Your Father’s Name
Lolwe, Issue 8, Guest-Edited by Charmaine Denison-George, Logain Ali and Alírio Karina; December, 2023.
2021
In the Blink of My Eye, The World Ended
Barren Magazine, Issue 19; August, 2021.
Olive Branches and Weeping Doves
Oyster River Pages, Issue 5.1; August, 2021.
Vagabond City Lit, Issue 60; June, 2021.
For the Wages of Love is Grief
Finalist, Eco Theo Review’s Inaugural Short Fiction Contest; March, 2021.
2020
A Broken Song