Saheed Sunday

Aug 26, 2024 | palettepoetry.com | Saheed Sunday

download a pdf of the poem here Saheed SundaySaheed Sunday, NGP V, is a Nigerian author, a Star Prize awardee, a Pushcart Prize nominee, a Best of the Net Prize nominee, Best Small Fictions Prize nominee, and a reader at Chestnut Review. He won the ZODML Poetry Prize, Poetry Archive, and was a runner-up for The Nigeria Prize for Teen Authors.

Apr 15, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Saheed Sunday |Ana Hurtado |David C. Kopaska-Merkel |Liliana Colanzi

I started out a promise, I knew what path I could walk, what rest I shouldhave, whom to kiss & whom to tease; then life, with its metaphors, happened:—Nome Patrick EmekaMnemonic skills test positive: inaccurately positive. The past years are wads of silk stretched in lengthsAt my frontal lobe. The holograph of life flashedItself through the marketplace; a falsetto, tugging atThe chattering of the square where I became. Camera shutters.

Apr 15, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |Ana Hurtado |Saheed Sunday |Liliana Colanzi

Our shuttle landed.

Apr 15, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Rachel Cordasco |Ana Hurtado |Saheed Sunday |David C. Kopaska-Merkel

Liliana Colanzi’s first collection in English, Our Dead World (2017), was so intriguing and strange that, when I found out about her second collection, You Glow in the Dark, I nearly jumped through the computer to get a copy. In that first book, Colanzi imagined, among other things, a cold, lonely colony on Mars; a meteorite potentially controlled by aliens; and a girl pushed into a nervous breakdown by her fanatical mother (à la Stephen King’s Carrie [1974]).

Apr 13, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Ana Hurtado |Saheed Sunday |David C. Kopaska-Merkel |Liliana Colanzi

I want to sink my faces into the hot spring and see which one comes out breathing. I’m hoping it’s mine.