starvation

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Adedayo Agarau is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a 2022 Robert Hayden Scholarship fellow and a recipient of the 2022 Stanley Awards for International Research at the University of Iowa. He obtained his MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop ’23. His poems have been featured in Poetry Magazine, Poetry Society of America, World Literature Today, Iowa Review, and Boulevard. He is the author of the chapbooks, Origin of Names (African Poetry Book Fund), and The Arrival of Rain (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press). Adedayo is the Editor-in-Chief at Agbowó: An African magazine of literature and art.