Owólabi Aboyade Non-Member Joined 2018

hip hop, essays, poetry, editing, and zinery

Poetry Nonfiction

Owólabi Aboyade is a multidimensional hip hop MC, poet, and essayist from Detroit. His work is anthologized in Nombono: Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators, and A Body You Talk To -An Anthology of Contemporary Disability. Owólabi’s work can be found in Riverwise, Geez, Therapeutic Edgelands, Konch, and Womens Studies Quarterly.

Aboyade is Text Editor of AWE Society Press working on publications including BulletTrain, a magazine chronicling Detroit’s revolutionary culture and making meaning, a zine series by and for people with chronic pain. Lee,Young Lee*, his poetry chapbook is a lyrical echo from his brother Lee’s suicide.

His work has been supported by Tin House Residency, the Radical Imagination Fellowship, and VONA. He is currently working on collapse: Notes from the Detroit underground, an essay collection about grief, culture, and family in gentrifying Detroit. A Kwame Dawes Mapmaker Fellow, he earned his MFA from Pacific University.

Location:

Detroit, MI

Birthdate:

30 August

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