As a Child I Knew Nothing About War
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Rasaq Malik Gbolahan is a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Ploughshares, The Nation, Colorado Review, Crab Orchard Review, LitHub, Michigan Quarterly Review, Minnesota Review, New Orleans Review, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. He received Honorable Mention in 2015 Best of the Net for his poem “Elegy,” published in One. In 2017, Rattle and Poet Lore 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.
