Okwudili Nebeolisa

Okwudili Nebeolisa is the author of Terminal Maladies (Autumn House Press, 2024), winner of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize. He studied poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently studying fiction at the University of Minnesota. His poems appear in the Cincinnati Review, Image, Poetry, the Sewanee Review, the Southern Review, and the Threepenny Review, while his prose appears in Catapult, Commonwealth Writers, and the Evergreen Review.

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On the Boat to Europe

Okwudili Nebeolisa  | 
Issue 74.1-2 Spring 2025

If he opened his eyes /
Long enough to welcome the July light /
Maybe he would throw up. Sitting did not help.