Ùgòchúkwú Damian @ug_damian Twitter profile

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

8 months

My debut poetry collection is officially out today. Thanks to the team at Fordham University Press for their hard work, and to you all for your support. You can place an order via the link in my bio or below.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

my full length collection is just got accepted by a university press in the US. no! I'm in tears.

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8 months

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

excited to share here that my poetry collection will be published by Fordham University Press. 😊🥹you can tell that it’s been an awesome year,

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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5 years

Nobody: Absolutely no one: The person responsible for Kainene's disappearance: 👇👇👇

BRITTLE PAPER

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5 years

Caption this pic. 👇 📸 @FelabrationNG #Felabration2019 #theFelaDebates

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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1 year

Cover Reveal 🥺🥺 I am thrilled to share the cover of my debut poetry collection, In Gorgeous Display, forthcoming with Fordham University Press. And what a gorgeous cover art by @mikaelowunna from his series, Infinite Essence, rooted in Igbo cosmology.

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4 years

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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9 months

The book living up to its title. 🥺🥺🥺 You can still pre-order my gorgeous debut from the link in my bio. ❤️🫶🏽

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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10 months

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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11 months

Repping Imo

IGBO History & Facts

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11 months

Dear Igbo Men, please bless us with JPEGs

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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1 year

casually turned 25. 🥺 to paraphrase Ellen Bass’ poem, here’s to loving life even when i have no stomach for it. 🥂🥂

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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6 years

When your parents change the channel to NTA #AMVCA2018 Twitter, we die here 😂

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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5 years

Omg!😭😭😭❤️I woke up to an acceptance letter. Quite uplifting because I've been basking in rejection letters lately. And yeah, I'm getting paid for it. Thank you Kreative Diadem for this.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

new book alert. 😊 ikr! if i were you, i’d also wanna be me right now. 😂

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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4 years

My chapbook, I Know the Origin of my Tremor, was selected as a runner up for Sundress Publication ninth annual chapbook competition. Special thanks to @estebanjrod11 and the whole team at Sundress. ❤️❤️

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

Excited to share two of my poems published in the December issue of @poetrymagazine Grateful to the editors for the care and attention given to the poems. ❤️ Link👇🏼

Ugochukwu Damian Okpara | Poetry Foundation

Ugochukwu Damian Okpara is a Nigerian writer and poet and the author of the poetry chapbook, I Know the Origin of My Tremor (Sundress Publications, 2021).

www.poetryfoundation.org

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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11 months

Excited to share with y’all that the pre-order link to my debut poetry collection is live now on Amazon & Bookshop. It’s set to be published Sept 5th ‘23 from Fordham Uni. Press. Link below & in bio Thanks for the support. ❤️

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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4 years

😊😊my poetry chapbook was shortlisted. Congrats to the winners.

OutWrite DC LGBTQ Literary Festival

@OutWriteDC

4 years

We’re also pleased to share a strong shortlist in each category:

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

wish i was a trust fund baby, that way i get to dip in & out of whatever interests me without genuinely thinking of my future. like one day i'm trying out photography, the next i'm doing some neuro work, and then maybe music, acting, teaching, at some other point.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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3 years

Design Queen 👩‍💻❤️✨

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3 years

Fine men on my TL, Quote with JPEGs of you ❤️

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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3 years

Happy eligibility month

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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6 months

Did a thing at the 3 minute thesis competition.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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1 year

“There is nothing more beautiful than to wake up every day holding in your hand the full measure of your integrity.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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4 years

I have a poem in this recent issue of @BarrenMagazine . So glad it found a home here.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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1 year

I'm happy to be a part of the SprinNG Writing Fellowship ( @SprinngLM ) this year. Apply today if you're qualified! #2023SprinNGMentor

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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5 years

🤔🤔🤔Pinning this to my profile to remind myself daily😑 that I'm not trash.😭😭😭

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

always a delight to get to read my work.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

Boy in Gorgeous Display.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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4 years

My conversation with David Ishaya Osu, author of When I’m Eighteen, has been published today at Africa in Dialogue. Kindly read & share.❤️❤️❤️

Poetry As An Oscillating Universe: A Dialogue with David Ishaya Osu

POETRY AS AN OSCILLATING UNIVERSE A DIALOGUE WITH DAVID ISHAYA OSU David Ishaya Osu is a poet, memoirist, and street photographer. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies across…

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

@ug_damian

6 months

My inability to read signals might be the reason why I’m still single. Because how am I hanging out with my friend and some folks, only for my friend to tell me later that someone was hitting up on me? All the while, I kept thinking they were just nice and well-mannered. 💀💀💀

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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4 years

Bonded in 6 days & now it feels like we've known each other for years. #Family #PHTCWW '19

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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3 years

DEKUNLE🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬

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3 years

Quote this with a picture when no one knew you were hurting.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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3 years

Cheers to a new year💕🍾

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

#NewProfilePic

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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4 years

I've got balloons. Happy birthday to me.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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5 years

@tunddy

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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3 years

Trilled to share my first short story publication. It warms my heart that it found a home @MastersReview

“Love is Such a Morphing Thing” by Ugochukwu Damian Okpara - The Masters Review

I. Grief makes one oblivious to the loops they long unknotted especially if the grief is theirs to own. Circa 12:53 AM, the morning is asleep and the road is still, except for the swaying of the...

mastersreview.com

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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10 months

Countdown to September 5th, & while we wait, preorder link is available below and on my website [] #LLWritersRetreat #poetry #poetrybooks #FUPress

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

🥹okay. finally got my copy. #Vagabonds !

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

"It’s hard to know the year, but it’s a fact. It really happened. Everybody saw it. After all, what’s the alternative: That an entire country had a choreographed hallucination? A nationwide delusion?" phew! Eloghosa, at it again!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌

Thomas | Eloghosa Osunde | Granta

‘It’s a story that happens to you once and then lives with you forever.’ An excerpt from Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde.

granta.com

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

@ug_damian

2 years

… I want my existence to be a long song. a bird who after taking to air discovers heaven is emptiness and does not lament. —Romeo Oriogun

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

@ug_damian

7 months

As seen in Publishers Weekly review highlight! ❤️❤️🥺❤️ You can still get your copy from the link in bio.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

@ug_damian

2 years

Yours truly have two poems in this issue. ❤️❤️A delight!

POETRY magazine

@poetrymagazine

2 years

POETRY's December issue, guest edited by Suzi F. Garcia @SuziG , is now live!

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

Ocean Vuong has to be the most beautiful human on earth. 🥲😢💕♥️read him? ever listened to him speak? such a privilege to exist in the same space with him.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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5 years

My 'God when?' moment today was after I read @adedayo_agarau 's poem (Anorexia Nervosa) published in @agbowoart . 😭😭😭😭😭🤣Where are y'all getting the juju to write spellbinding poems? Asking for a friend.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

What is discipline? The ground floor of freedom. What is a floor? The thing that mirrors the ceiling. What is a ceiling? Wherever your imagination ends. What is an ending? Necessary. See also: inevitable. What is normal? Not compulsory.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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8 months

In Gorgeous Display is on @bookriot ’s list of must-have new poetry for Fall 2023. This warms my heart deeply, and much gratitude to Laura Sackton.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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5 years

Grateful for this space( @akefestival ) and all the amazing people it held. @deartitilope @LoganFebruary @Nnedi , @chikaunigwe @Adetutu_OJ @lolashoneyin @monaeltahawy @FrankieEdozien @TJBenson_ ❤️❤️❤️❤️ #AkeFest19 #AkeFestival

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

@HiGroundCoward sending all the love & light.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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4 years

Happy birthday @lolashoneyin . Thank you for Ake, Kabafest, Ouidabooks & for everything you do for Art. May Joy never depart from you. ❤️

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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4 years

The Person || The Personality

Theophilus Mshelia Sokuma

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4 years

The Person || The Personality

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9 months

Adedayo Agarau

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9 months

quote this tweet with that poem! THAT POEM!

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

new essay in The Republic. it’s always a pleasure to have editors who tend to your work with care. do read & share. 💕🤗

The Republic

@republicjournal

2 years

He was 14 when he first read that being an effeminate man was a sin in his religion (Christianity). @ug_damian writes about his journey stepping out of religion to find God. #OurLatestOnline

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#NewProfilePic

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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3 years

I’d really appreciate if anyone could send me free Poetry chapbooks / collections. Or direct me to magazines where I can access them.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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3 years

Check out Fabulolyricstrend on IG and order your wears too😘

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4 years

🌝

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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5 years

Here is literally driving me crazy. 😭😭😭😭

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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10 months

At least once a week I think about this excerpt from the novel Stoner by John Williams.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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4 years

Felt cute. Might delete.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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4 years

What’s on your reading list?

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4 years

on the next page of my life i wrote only one word. happiness. - @SonOfOlokun

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4 years

❤️❤️

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3 years

Shy moon, why shy tonight? -Carl Phillips

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

i don't know if this is a thing, but really i love how authoritative Eloghosa Osunde's writing is. like yeah, turn me into your bitch, take all my attention, my breath? no, i don't deserve it! draw me in, make me curl up in bed lost in you.

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3 years

🌝

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

love that Vagabonds is trending in Nigeria

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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4 years

Here in my little space. 🌝🌝❤️ + I muted the video.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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4 years

“Poetry is capable of sitting inside memory, and fetching from it. Poetry would teach your hands how to write your memories, teach your body how to react to its own offerings.” - @adedayo_agarau Fam, I had a conversation with Adedayo Do check it out & share.

Africa in Dialogue

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Musicality in the Poetry of Healing: A Dialogue with Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau

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2 years

i keep going back to this poem. 💝

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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5 years

Took this after my haircut today. Okurrr❤️🧡💚💚💙💜🖤

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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3 years

Such a delight to have my poem appear in The Muse Journal, which is the oldest surviving students’ journal in West Africa. Also founded by Chinua Achebe. Special thanks to the editors.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

I have a poem in here alongside other amazing talents. Do grab a copy! ❤️💕

fourteenpoems

@fourteenpoems

2 years

Issue 6 is here! Despite grappling with supply chain chaos, this little beauty has arrived safe and sound. Poems about coming out, families, conceiving, partying + lusting after loved ones; we think this batch has it all. You can grab a copy via our website. Link in the darn bio!

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3 years

Onion Cider

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3 years

Quote this tweet with a selfie of you without Filter.

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3 years

Quote this with a B/W picture of you 🖤🤍

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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3 years

then vs. now

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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3 years

My parents: Do you think you can drive the other car from here to the village. Me: I’ve never driven on a highway My mom: Okay. Oya comma help me kill this chicken. Me: I don’t know how to kill chicken Parents:

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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6 months

Single me rolled tf out of my eyes at Obinze and Ifemelu. 😭💀💀😂 Their nonsense was right in my face. 💀💀

The African Ink 📖

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6 months

“I'm chasing you. I'm going to chase you until you give this a chance.” - Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

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4 years

I actually don't know what to do in front of camera. 😍

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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3 years

Yass! ❤️❤️ I have three poems published here. Do read and share. ❤️

Sprinng

@SprinngLM

3 years

Our writer of the month is @ug_damian and we are very excited for you to read his works! Visit to read some of his poems. #poetry #SprinNG #Africanwriters #Writers #Literarymag

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9 months

August 🗑️

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4 years

Congrats @Ethereal_ilo 🙌🏼🙌🏼

Commonwealth Foundation Creatives

@cwfcreatives

4 years

We're so pleased to announce the 2020 #CWprize shortlist! Find out about the twenty Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlisted stories and their writers here: #storiestoconnectus @BlckPorcelain #iheartshortstories

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4 years

#NewProfilePic

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2 years

@ThatPHCBoy quite sad & trust homophobes to use this to carryout more violence on effeminate men who do not even cross dress.

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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4 years

I have a poem published in The Rising Phoneix Press. Many thanks to the editor. ❤️

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3 years

@Oypanio_Toeo You should listen to Ocean Vuong & Jericho Brown on ‘On Being’ podcast.

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6 months

🫢🫢🫢

Wano 😶‍🌫️

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6 months

Can I see y’all fav mirror pics? 😅🩶

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2 years

Seen a fine boy today?

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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2 years

& to resist the temptation of posting all screenshots from her writing on my WhatsApp status is really a thing. God save us because Eloghosa doesn't have any mercy to spare us!

Ùgòchúkwú Damian

@ug_damian

2 years

i don't know if this is a thing, but really i love how authoritative Eloghosa Osunde's writing is. like yeah, turn me into your bitch, take all my attention, my breath? no, i don't deserve it! draw me in, make me curl up in bed lost in you.

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8 months

Lately, I’ve been cutting my own hair. The panic from getting it all wrong has been thrilling. Tell me why I have the urge now to further experiment— like taking my beards off & leaving just my mustache to see how I look?

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Ùgòchúkwú Damian

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4 years

I miss my personal space so much. 😭😭😭

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5 years

Your baby boy signed out on Tuesday.❤️❤️❤️

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