Connotation Press: “Garissa,” and “What We Will Become.”
Diode: “Ode To My Son’s Life,” and “My Mother Carries the Trauma of This Country.”
Literary Hub: “In Another World.” (April 26, 2018)
Michigan Quarterly Review: “Ode to My Sister,” and “Nothing New.” (MQR 55:4)
Michigan Quarterly Review: “ode to the body.” (Spring 2024 Online Folio)
New Orleans Review: “Like Every Black Mother.” (Issue 43, 2017)
POETRY: “As a child, I Knew Nothing About Grief.” (Jan/Feb issue, 2025)
Poetry Northwest: “Tonight In My Country.” (Summer & Fall 2020)
Porter House Review: “Elegy at Sea.”
Rattle: “How My Mother Spends Her Nights.” (Issue 51, Spring 2016)
Rattle: “What My Children Remember.” (Issue 65, Fall 2019)
Sonora Review: “Ode to the Ordinariness of the World.” (January 2024)
The Nation: “Siege.” (Sept. 29, 2022)
The Poetry Review: “Surrender.” (Autumn 2024, 114:3)
Tupelo Quarterly: “Elegy for What Remains.”
African American Review: “For Derek Walcott,” “On Nights Like This,” and “New Land.” Volume 55.1, Spring 2022.
Antigone Review: “Ode to the Earth.” Spring 2022.
Beloit Journal: “In Another World.” Forthcoming.
Crab Orchard Review: “Today,” “My mother gathers her grief,” “Remembering Death.” Vol. 24, No 1, General Issue.
Colorado Review: “In Dahyan,” and “County of Birth.” Volume 46, Number 2, Summer 2019.
Kenyon Review: “Nothing Is Certain.” Forthcoming.
Michigan Quarterly Review: “rest in peace, beloved (i).” Spring 2024.
Minnesota Review: “What They Remember.” Volume 2017, Issue 88. (2017) 2017 (88): 14
Notre Dame Review: “Dusk, Again.” Issue 53 (Spring 2022)
Ploughshares: “rest in peace, beloveds.” Winter 2024-2025.
Poetry Northwest: “The Language of Grief.” Summer & Fall 2020
Poet Lore: “What My Father Says Every Night.” Volume 111, Number 3/4
Prairie Schooner: “What Remains After My Grandmother’s Death.” Vol. 93, Number 1, Spring 2019. University of Nebraska Press.
Salt Hill: “Aleppo.” Issue 43/44
Stand: “After My Grandfather’s Passing,” “My Father Visits His Mother’s Grave,” “Ode to My Father’s Grief.” Stand 227, 18(3), 2020.
Spillway: “Motherhood.” Issue 24, June 2016
The Southern Review: “Here, God.” Spring 2025
Transition: “Elegy at Sea,” “What Crosses the Sea” and “Ode to the Sea.” Issue 132, 2021
Minnesota Review: “What They Remember.” Minnesota Review 88 (2017)
Southern Humanities Review: “Ode To Despair.” Volume 53.3, Fall 2020.
African Urban Echoes, edited by Jide Salawu and Rasaq Malik. Griots Lounge, 2025.
Black Lives Have Always Mattered, edited by Abiodun Oyewole. 2Leaf Press, 2017.
Echoes of Carnage: An Anthology of Poems on Zamfara, edited by Jalaludeen Ibrahim and Maryam Gatawa. Adamu Joji Publishers, 2021.
One Poem, Fifty Seasons: A Celebration of Sola Owonibi @ 50, edited by Tosin Gbogi and Akeem Lasisi. Association of Nigerian Authors, 2013.
Phases: Poetry of People, edited by Femi Morgan. 2015.
Sọ̀rọ̀sókè: An #EndSARS Anthology, edited by Jumoke Verissimo and James Yékú. Noirledge, 2022.
The Sky is our Earth, edited by Abasi Torty Tortivie, Senator Ihenyen, & Emmanuel Dairo. WriteHouse Collective, 2014.
Wreaths for a Wayfarer: An Anthology of Poems in Honour of Pius Adesanmi (1972-2019), edited by Nduka Otiono & Uchechukwu Umezurike. Daraja Press & Narrative Landscape Press, 2020.