Epics and Couplets with Saddiq Dzukogi

Welcome to In Three Poems, where we read three poems with a different guest poet each episode, and the third poem is always a work by another poet, chosen by our guest. David talks poetry, faith, and folklore, method and mythology, with Nigerian poet and professor of English, Saddiq Dzukogi. Text the show!Support the showPOEM 1. “Ring” First published in Poetry Magazine (September, 2021), read by DavidPOEM 2. Excerpt from Bakandamiya: An Elegy (University of Nebraska Press, 2025), read by Saddiq.POEM 3. "Vows” by Gbenga Adesina from Death Does Not End at the Sea (University of Nebraska Press, 2025), read by Saddiq.Links:Ring by Saddiq Dzukogi, Poetry MagazineSaddiq DzukogiSaddiq’s BooksGbenga Adesina’ Death Does Not End at the SeaSaddiq's Bio:Saddiq Dzukogi is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla (Nebraska, 2021), winner of the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the Julie Suk Award-- and shortlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature, and most recently, Bakandamiya: An Elegy (Nebraska, 2025).His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, Guernica Magazine, Poetry London, Best American Experimental Writing Anthology, and Cincinnati Review. He has received fellowships from the Nebraska Arts Council, Mississippi Arts Commission, and Cave Canem.Text the show!Support the show