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The Poems I Love brings poetry to life through expressive readings and thoughtful conversations. Hosted by poet and publisher Servio Gbadamosi, the podcast explores classical and contemporary poems from around the world, inviting listeners into shared spaces of language, memory, and feeling. From time to time, special guests join the programme to reflect on poems that have shaped their inner lives, celebrating the beauty of poetry and the enduring power of storytelling. In Episode 64, Servio is joined by Moses Emeka, an Igbo writer, photographer, and editor based in Ibadan, Nigeria. His work engages African literary aesthetics and the critical life of books, and his essays have examined writers such as Abdulrazak Gurnah within broader literary and philosophical contexts. His poems have appeared in online journals including Variety Pack, and he previously served as Political Editor at the now-defunct New York–based online magazine Mixed Mag. Moses has also worked as a first reader and editor for emerging Nigerian writers and remains actively engaged in conversations about the evolving directions of African literature. He is a 2022 SPRINNG Writing Fellow. In this episode, Moses Emeka reads and reflects on five poems: • Small Kindnesses by Danusha Laméris • And I’ve Mastered the Art of Receiving Handouts Because I Come from This Place by Ama Asantewa Diaka • I Worried by Mary Oliver • Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry • Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye The Poems I Love airs every Wednesday on Spotify and YouTube. Do not forget to like, comment, share, and subscribe—and turn on notifications so you never miss a new episode. #ThePoemsILove #PoetryPodcast #Poetry #Poems #AfricanPoetry #African Literature #Noirledge #NoirledgePublishing #TPIL #Publisher #Storytelling #NigerianPoets #Literature #IbadanFestival #ServioGbadamosi #DanushaLaméris #AmaAsantewaDiaka #MaryOliver #WendellBerry #NaomiShihabNye
The Poems I Love Episode 64 | Moses Emeka
Snippet | Episode 64 | Moses Emeka
The Poems I Love brings poetry to life through expressive readings and thoughtful conversations. Hosted by poet and publisher Servio Gbadamosi, the podcast explores classical and contemporary poems from around the world, inviting listeners into shared spaces of language, memory, and feeling. From time to time, special guests join the programme to reflect on poems that have shaped their inner lives, celebrating the beauty of poetry and the enduring power of storytelling. In Episode 63, Servio is joined by Sodïq Oyèkànmí, a Nigerian poet and dramaturge. He holds a BA in Theatre Arts and is currently pursuing an MA in Cultural and Media Studies at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. A 2022–23 Poetry Translation Centre (UK) UNDERTOW Fellow, he was named a 2024 Best of the Net winner and serves as a poetry editor at Lucent Dreaming. A recipient of the Unserious Collective Fellowship (2023), his work has appeared in Blue Earth Review, Frontier Poetry, LOLWE, Longleaf Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, North Dakota Quarterly, Passages North, Poetry Wales, The Polyglot, and other publications. In this episode, Sodïq Oyèkànmí reads and reflects on three poems: • Prelude to Survival by Nome Emeka Patrick • Post Massacre Psyche Evaluation by Abu Bakr Sadiq • My Poem Will Not Save You by Dunya Mikhail The Poems I Love airs every Wednesday on Spotify and YouTube. Do not forget to like, comment, share, and subscribe—and turn on notifications so you never miss a new episode. #ThePoemsILove #PoetryPodcast #Poetry #Poems #AfricanPoetry #African Literature #Noirledge #NoirledgePublishing #TPIL #Publisher #Storytelling #NigerianPoets #Literature #IbadanFestival #ServioGbadamosi #The Poems #SodïqOyèkànmí #NomeEmekaPatrick #AbuBakrSadiq #DunyaMikhail
The Poems I Love Episode 63 | Sodïq Oyèkànmí
Snippet | Episode 63 | Sodiq Oyekanmi
Snippet | Episode 62 | Muiz Opeyemi
The Poems I Love brings poetry to life through expressive readings and thoughtful conversations. Hosted by poet and publisher Servio Gbadamosi, the podcast explores classical and contemporary poems from around the world, inviting listeners into shared spaces of language, memory, and feeling. From time to time, special guests join the programme to reflect on poems that have shaped their inner lives, celebrating the beauty of poetry and the enduring power of storytelling. In Episode 62, Servio is joined by Muiz Opeyemi, an editor at The Nigeria Review and a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal. He was a 2021 ARTmosterrific Writer-in-Residence and a member of the 2023 Poetry Translation Centre UNDERTOW cohort. His work has earned notable recognition, including winning the Lagos-London Poetry Competition 2022 and the University of Ibadan Law LDS Poetry Prize 2022, as well as being named second runner-up for the PROFWIC Poetry Prize 2021. In this episode, Muiz Opeyemi reads and reflects on four poems: • Fuck / Shakespeare by Inua Ellams • Fuck / Conrad by Mayowa Oyewale • Not Even This by Ocean Vuong • Vocabulary by Safia Elhillo The Poems I Love airs every Wednesday on Spotify and YouTube. Do not forget to like, comment, share, and subscribe—and turn on notifications so you never miss a new episode. #ThePoemsILove #PoetryPodcast #Poetry #Poems #AfricanPoetry #African Literature #Noirledge #NoirledgePublishing #TPIL #Publisher #Storytelling #NigerianPoets #Literature #IbadanFestival #ServioGbadamosi #InuaEllams #MayowaOyewale #OceanVuong #SafiaElhillo #MuizOpeyemi
The Poems I Love Episode 62 | Muiz Opeyemi
The Poems I Love brings poetry to life through expressive readings and thoughtful conversations. Hosted by poet and publisher Servio Gbadamosi, the podcast explores classical and contemporary poems from around the world, inviting listeners into shared spaces of language, memory, and feeling. From time to time, special guests join the programme to reflect on poems that have shaped their inner lives, celebrating the beauty of poetry and the enduring power of storytelling. In Episode 61, Servio is joined by Tosin Gbogi, a literary scholar, cultural critic, linguist, and poet. His research and teaching move across African and African diaspora literatures, poetry and poetics, hip-hop and popular culture, and postcolonial and decolonial theories. He is the author of the monograph Nigerian Hip-Hop: Race, Knowledge, and the Poetics of Resistance (Oxford University Press, December 2025). Drawing on a wide range of materials—including lyrics, music videos, visual arts, archival sources, and interviews—the book examines Nigerian hip-hop as a form of popular poetry, exploring its intermediality and multimodality, its Afrodiasporic connections, and its reflections on race in the afterlives of slavery and colonialism. The work ultimately makes a compelling case for the decolonial and epistemic contributions of hip-hop in Africa, where young people continue to use the music and its surrounding culture to generate knowledge about self, race, and nation. As a poet, Gbogi is the author of the tongues of a shattered s-k-y (Blackgraphics, 2012) and Locomotifs and Other Songs (Noirledge, 2018). Before joining the University of Minnesota, he taught at Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria, and later at Marquette University. In this episode, Tosin Gbogi reads from and reflects on poems from Locomotifs and Other Songs: • Second Station • Fourth Station • Seventh Station • For the Ears of This Night • Bastards of No Nation The Poems I Love airs every Wednesday on Spotify and YouTube. Do not forget to like, comment, share, and subscribe—and turn on notifications so you never miss a new episode. #ThePoemsILove #PoetryPodcast #Poetry #Poems #AfricanPoetry #African Literature #Noirledge #NoirledgePublishing #TPIL #Publisher #Storytelling #NigerianPoets #Literature #IbadanFestival #TosinGbogi #ServioGbadamosi
The Poems I Love Episode 61 | Tosin Gbogi
The Poems I Love brings poetry to life through expressive readings and thoughtful conversations. Hosted by poet and publisher Servio Gbadamosi, each episode explores classical and contemporary poems from around the world. From time to time, special guests join the programme to share poems that have moved them—celebrating language, storytelling, and the shared emotions that shape our lives. In this special Episode 60, Servio is joined by Johnson Aremo and Kayode Sanni for a warm and engaging reflection on the last eleven episodes of the series. Together, they revisit memorable moments, revisit highlights from guest conversations, and reflect on the poems that have most deeply resonated this season. The conversation also offers listeners an exciting glimpse into what lies ahead—new voices, deeper explorations, and an expanding archive of poetry that continues to connect and inspire across communities. 🎧 The Poems I Love airs every Wednesday on Spotify and YouTube. Do not forget to like, comment, share, and subscribe—and turn on notifications so you never miss a new episode. #ThePoemsILove #PoetryPodcast #Poetry #Poems #AfricanPoetry #African Literature #Noirledge #NoirledgePublishing #TPIL #Publisher #Storytelling #NigerianPoets #Literature #IbadanFestival #JohnsonAremo #KayodeSanni #ServioGbadamosi
The Poems I Love Episode 60 | Servio Gbadamosi, Johnson Aremo and Kayode Sanni
Snippet | Season 5 Wrapped
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