{"id":6251,"date":"2026-02-09T00:14:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/?post_type=writer&#038;p=6251"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:24:17","slug":"rasaq-malik-gbolahan","status":"publish","type":"writer","link":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/rasaq-malik-gbolahan\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasaq Malik Gbolahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RASAQ MALIK GBOLAHAN is a Nigerian poet, performer, translator, essayist, and an emerging DH scholar. The founding Editor-in-Chief of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agbow\u00f3<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he is also a cofounder of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00c0t\u00e9l\u1eb9w\u00f3<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the first digital journal devoted to publishing literary work written in the Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 language. He is the author of the poetry chapbooks <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Home In This Land, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">selected for Chapbook Box edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Other Names of Grief, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published by Konya Shamsrumi. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">POETRY, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, African American Review, Beloit, Colorado Review, Crab Orchard Review, LitHub, Michigan Quarterly Review, Minnesota Review, New Orleans Review, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Rattle, Salt Hill, Spillway, Stand, Verse Daily, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and elsewhere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He received Honourable Mention in the 2015 Best of the Net for his work published in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2017, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rattle <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poet Lore <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nominated his poems for the Pushcart Prize. He was shortlisted for Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2017. He was a finalist for Sillerman First Book for African Poets in 2018. His co-edited anthology, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">African Urban Echoes, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was published in Spring 2025 by Griots Lounge, Canada. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6252,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"writer_category":[],"writer_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6251","writer","type-writer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","thb-post-share-style1"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rasaq Malik Gbolahan - Masobe Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/rasaq-malik-gbolahan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rasaq Malik Gbolahan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"RASAQ MALIK GBOLAHAN is a Nigerian poet, performer, translator, essayist, and an emerging DH scholar. 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