Creative Calabash
Owólabi Aboyade| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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surreal summer
You can’t make this shit up any more. The president of the United States sending out messages to the world IN ALL CAPS AND WITH GLARRING SPELLING MISTAKES. A cabal of human traffickers conducting international espionage. Men who we should b...
Place
250 years of America
I wrote this post on a trip to the Northern Great Lakes to visit my partner’s family of birth. We were there on July 4th and we saw the fireworks show- the tail end of the small town community holiday celebration. E...
Speculative
GrandMaster of Fantastic Poetry, OG says that “our shared foundational creations were story-poems of a mythic, fantastic, and transformational nature.” What we now call speculative poetry was first memorized, chanted, sung, and transmitted...
why I write nonfiction
This is why I write nonfiction of all the things I could do with my Rusty Ole Self….
Because I lived, I live, make choices under physical social and ancestral constraints, and have feelings. They tell me that to essay is to try, to write a...
2025 has come and is gone (it lingers like a pungent, powerful stench-- is this medicine or poison--drink up, my peoples) these creative works remain: 2025
This piece is a continuation of ”2025 has come and is gone (and it lingers)” Check out Part 1 and Part 2 for other cultural reflections of the year 2025.
Recently I picked up an unexpected call from a friend of 20+ years. We’ll call her S....
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Owólabi Aboyade is a father, poet, MC, essayist and cultural organizer portal hopper. He is a priest of Sango. He lives with kidney failure and has been medicalized for 30+ years.
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