The Nigerian poet JK Anowe, Chapbook Series Editor at Praxis Magazine, won the inaugural Brittle Paper Award for Poetry in 2017, for his poem “Credo to Leave.” Published in Expound, “Credo to Leave” exemplifies the Self-centric exploration of mental illness that JK Anowe is known for.
A week ago, he was shortlisted for the 2019 Gerald Kraak Prize, for his poem “Playlist of the Least Lovable.” In a congratulatory tweet, the American poetry press Madhouse Press, who secured publication rights to his chapbook, announced that it will arrive this spring. Titled Sky Raining Fists, the anticipated chapbook is the follow-up to his debut, the ikemefuna tributaries, released by Praxis Magazine in 2016.
🎉🎉🎉🎉CONGRATULATIONS to MH poet @Anowe__ has been shortlisted for the Gerald Kraak Prize & Anthology! MH will be publishing JK’s SKY RAINING FISTS later this spring.
— Madhouse Press (@madhouse_press) April 5, 2019
Congratulations to JK Anowe!
JK Anowe’s Ikemefuna Tribuatries is a Window into Dissecting Tragedy |Praxis Magazine for Arts & Literature January 08, 2020 11:17
[…] the reader quaintly perceives JK Anowe’s vision to seek truth in its primordial form. In Sky Raining Fists, he reflects this need to ask, and to question, even when answers may never come. In Ikemefuna […]