Funto Omojola is a Nigerian-American writer, performer, and visual artist. They are the author of If I Gather Here and Shout (2024), winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize, and founder of PrayerRoom, a virtual asynchronous prayer circle and participatory art project. Omojola’s work has been published in the Baffler, Boston Review, and Ghost Proposal, among others.

POETRY

Ode

By FUNTO OMOJOLA

I wanted to stay forever in / that rocking place.