Tongueless Secrets by Taofeek Ayeyemi
Tongueless Secrets by Taofeek Ayeyemi
2021///limited edition 60 copies
Taofeek Ayeyemi, fondly called Aswagaawy, is a Nigerian lawyer and writer with works appearing or forthcoming in Lucent Dreaming, Ethel Zine, the QuillS, The Pangolin Review, Minute Magazine, Modern Haiku, Hedgerow, Acorn, Akitsu Quarterly, Seashores, contemporary haibun online and elsewhere. He won Honorable Mention Prize in 2020 Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize, 2019 Morioka International Haiku Contest, 2019 Soka Matsubara International Haiku Contest, 1st Prize in 2018 PoeticWednesday Poetry Contest and 2nd Prize, 2016 Christopher Okigbo Poetry Prize. His chapbook Tongueless Secret (Ethel Press) and full-length book aubade at night or serenade in the morning (FlowerSong Press) are forthcoming in 2021. When he's not in the court arguing, in the chambers drafting, in the bedchamber with his cats poeticizing or meditating as a Sufi, he'll be somewhere in the world talking. He is Aswagaawy on Facebook and Twitter.