Porsha Olayiwola

BLACK: writer. performer. futurist

PUBLICATIONS

“Chaste Duplex,” Triquarterly Press, 2021
https://www.triquarterly.org/issues/issue-160-black-voices/chaste-duplex-caught-between-lie-and-food

“Enquiry into The Lineage of Watermelons,” Triquarterly Press, 2021
https://www.triquarterly.org/issues/issue-160-black-voices/enquiry-lineage-watermelons

“Bring Me The Body,” Wildness Press, 2021
https://readwildness.com/25/olayiwola-body

“The Cops Behind Us, I Hold My Breath,” Wildness Press, 2021
https://readwildness.com/25/olayiwola-breath

“If You Tell It Backwards,” Academy of American Poets, 2021
https://poets.org/poem/if-you-tell-it-backward

“We Drink At The Attenuation Well” Academy of American Poets, 2020
https://poets.org/poem/we-drink-attenuation-well

“Notorious,” Academy of American Poets, 2020
https://poets.org/poem/notorious

“The Electric Slide Is Not A Dance!” Academy of American Poets, 2020
https://poets.org/poem/electric-slide-not-dance-man

“Twerk Villanelle,” Redivider Journal August 2019.
http://www.redividerjournal.com/2019/06/porsha-olayiwola-redivider-spotlight/

“Listen: My Right Hand is Covered in Blood” Redivider Journal August 2019.
http://www.redividerjournal.com/2019/06/porsha-olayiwola-redivider-spotlight/

“Had My Parents Not Been Separated After My Father’s Traffic Stop, Arrest and Deportation” Redivider Journal August 2019.
http://www.redividerjournal.com/2019/06/porsha-olayiwola-redivider-spotlight/

“Boston Ode” City of Boston. January 2019.
https://www.boston.gov/news/boston-ode-poem-poet-laureate-porsha-olayiwola

“How To Make Yourself Small.” Up The Staircase Quarterly, February 2017. https://www.upthestaircase.org/porsha-olayiwola.html

VIDEOS

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Subscribe to Button! New video daily: http://bit.ly/buttonpoetry If you loved this video, check out Deonte Osayande: http://bit.ly/1ubhx4h Performing during prelims at the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam. Porsha won the tournament. Follow Button on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/SG5Xm0 About Button: Button Poetry is committed to developing a coherent and effective system of production, distribution, promotion and fundraising for spoken word and performance poetry.
Become a member! Support Button Poetry: http://bit.ly/buttonpatreon7 Subscribe to Button! New video daily: http://bit.ly/buttonpoetry Minnesota folks! Don't miss the next Button Poetry Live: http://buttonpoetrylive.com Every first Monday at CAMP Bar in downtown Saint Paul. Porsha Olayiwola, performing at Button Poetry Live, January 2018.