Prof. Romeo Oriogun publishes new poems in Great River Review and The American Poetry Review

Congratulations to Professor Romeo Oriogun on publication of five new poems—three in Great River Review (Autumn 2024) and two in The American Poetry Review (Jan/Feb 2025).

An excerpt from "The Kingdom of Good Hope" in The American Poetry Review:

Day after day the mountain of the most high

received its fair share of worshipers,

and on each grove, there was a wooden cross,

a small hut, an incense shaker to provoke

the nose of God. I have travelled here,

a pilgrim of my own making,

and before my solitude was a bottle of olive oil,

a broken egg, the old skin of a snake

as if to say, I have given up my old life —

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