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Poetry. African & African American Studies. SAILING FOR ITHACA is a travelogue of an inner country that's full of ports and welcoming entry points. Passports mean nothing here. There are no border agents. There are no uniformed guards. "Enter where you can. / Leave in delight."

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Poetry. African & African American Studies. SAILING FOR ITHACA is a travelogue of an inner country that's full of ports and welcoming entry points. Passports mean nothing here. There are no border agents. There are no uniformed guards. "Enter where you can. / Leave in delight."
Autorenporträt
Abayomi Animashaun is an immigrant from Nigeria. He has an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a PhD from the University of Kansas. His poems have appeared in such print and online journals as Poetry Ireland Review, Diode, TriQuarterly, The Cortland Review, African American Review, The Adirondack Review, Ruminate Magazine, and Versedaily. A winner of the Hudson Prize and a recipient of a grant from the International Center for Writing and Translation, Animashaun is the author of three poetry collections, Seahorses, Sailing for Ithaca, and The Giving of Pears, and editor of three anthologies, Far Villages: Welcomes Essays for New and Beginner Poets, Others Will Enter the Gates: Immigrant Poets on Poetry, Influences, and Writing in America, and Walking the Tightrope: Poetry and Prose by LGBTQ Writers from Africa (edited with Spectra, Tatenda Muranda, Irwin Iradunkunda, and Timothy Kimutai). Abayomi Animashaun is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and a poetry editor at The Comstock Review. He lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin with his wife and children.