Friday Feature: Chiagoziem Jideofor
- Mar 13
- 1 min read
Chiagoziem Jideofor is Queer and Igbo. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Michigan Quarterly
Review, South Carolina Review, berlin lit, The Lincoln Review, Passages North, Commonwealth’s ADDA, the minnesota review, Sho Poetry Journal, MAYDAY, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.
when you claim to be from nowhere in particular
a seed doesn’t just fall off is what my grandmother would say
her ideation as crow, as sudden interest
in such conversations about origin, how she perches on the low kitchen
stool, prepared for this back and forth
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