National Youth Poet Laureate Daniel Somtochukwu Umemezie

Daniel Umemezie is a Nigerian-American poet whose work explores cultural inheritance and displacement, using bodily transformation as both metaphor and form. His poetry develops a realm between interior experience and external reality. His work has appeared in the North American Review , Scholastic , Magpie Journal and many more.

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