Hussain Ahmed is Nigerian, poet, and environmentalist. He holds a master's degree in Ecology and Environmental Control from Obafemi Awolowo University. His poems are featured or forthcoming from AGNI, Poetry Magazine, The Kenyon Review, Transition Magazine and elsewhere. He is a 2021 Semi-finalist Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a 2022 Finalist for the University of Wisconsin Press's Brittingham Prize and Felix Pollak Poetry Prize, and several others. He is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of a chapbook "Harp in a Fireplace" (Newfound, 2021) and a forthcoming collection "Soliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile" (Black Ocean, 2022).

Books by Hussain Ahmed:

Other poems on the web by Hussain Ahmed:
Two poems
Five poems
Two poems
"The Wall as the Diameter of Aperture"
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Ice Cream and Blood"
Two poems
"Assemblage of Stones for a New Colony"
"Child-Witch"
"Love Story"
"The Ghost on a Voyage"
"self-portrait as a god on fire"
"Disclaimer"
"Documentary of a Bride in Baptism"
"Cosmology of the Cloud with Baba as the Rain Maker"
"Hunger"
"Taxonomy: Grief"
"Flight"
"Friday"

Hussain Ahmed's Website.

Hussain Ahmed on Twitter.

About Harp in a Fireplace:

"'I am sick of the nostalgia that comes with a stale memory,' Hussain Ahmed writes, and 'today, history is our enemy,' in two separate poems where Wi-Fi features in the titles, in configurations as sobering as they are delightful. These modern and ancient juxtapositions are just one aspect of the relief I experienced reading Harp, a collection that brought ideas like ethos, faith, and soul back into my periphery."
—Tarfia Faizullah

"Hussain Ahmed's language resonates with the precision and detail of an earnest artist. A fine blend of history, memory, and spirituality, poems in this volume wax heroic: approaching despair, distance and loss with the certitude of hope. The poet invokes nature in its fullness and precariousness as witness to survival—birds in flight, bodies and geographies out of the hold of old colonies, the ritual of music engraved on human skin. This is a majestic work of an important voice."
—Naza Amaeze Okoli