Rasaq Malik Gbolahan

Rasaq Malik Gbolahan is a Nigerian poet. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Nation, Transition, and elsewhere. In 2017, Rattle and Poet Lore nominated his poems for the Pushcart Prize. He was shortlisted for Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2017. He was a finalist for Sillerman First Book for African Poets in 2018.

ode to the body

Published in Spring 2024 Online Folio blessed be the body in death & blessed be the hands touching the body in death to know the coldness of the body, the hands carrying the body in death, the hands folding the bedsheets that reek of the body before death & in death. blessed […]

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By Rasaq Malik Gbolahan