Literary CriticismLLIDS • 2025
To Speak, Not to Speak, or How to Speak: Atypical Bodies and the Politics of Language
An exploration of how language constructs and constrains bodies that exist outside normative frameworks...
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Published Works
A comprehensive collection of poetry, creative nonfiction essays, and academic literary critiques published across literary journals and research platforms.
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EssayLolwe • 2024
Panicky Little Things
A collection exploring anxiety, fear, and the small terrors that accumulate in the body...
EssayBrittle Paper • 2025
The Sky Calls It Therapy When It Rains
Meditations on weather as emotional landscape, where rain becomes both metaphor and medicine...
Literary CriticismThe Nigeria Review • 2024
Reading The Son of the House as a Trauma Narrative Through a Feminist Lens
A critical feminist analysis examining trauma, power, and survival in contemporary literature...
PoetryOrange Blossom Review • 2024
Replica
Poems that interrogate authenticity, imitation, and the copies we make of ourselves...
EssayThe Shallow Tales Review •
I Call Upon Your Name
A poem engaging intimacy, address, and the emotional force of naming.
PoetryHellbender Mag •
Translocation in a Poem with Crossroads
A poem about movement, displacement, and the crossings that reshape identity.
PoetryAlkebulan Art •
Two Poems by Damilola Oyedeji
A selection of poems published by Alkebulan Art.
PoetryPoetry Journal •
She
A poem exploring selfhood, intimacy, and the many meanings held in a single pronoun.
PoetryThe Razor Wire of Exile: The Annual Bridgette James Poetry Competition, 2026 Winners’ Anthology • 2026
Margins
A poem exploring boundaries, exile, and survival.
PoetryThe Talon Review •
Self-Portrait as a Mateless Bride
A poetic exploration of solitude, identity, and expectation.
PoetryPrairie Home Magazine • 2024
How to bury bodies
Meditations on grief, memory, and what remains after loss.
EssaySprinng • 2024
Why I write
Reflections on the compulsion of storytelling and the necessity of art.
PoetrySynchronized Chaos •
Poetry from Damilola Oyedeji
A selection of poems navigating chaos, movement, and emotional landscapes.
PoetrySpillwords •
SIC (to attack)
A poem engaging tension, resistance, and confrontation.
