Robert Okaji holds a BA in history, served without distinction in the U.S. Navy, toiled as a university administrator, and no longer owns a bookstore. His honors include the 2022 Slipstream Press Annual Chapbook Prize, the 2021 riverSedge Poetry Prize, and, at the age of nine, the Bar-K Ranch Goat-Catching Championship. He was recently diagnosed with late stage metastatic lung cancer, and lives, for the time being, in Indiana with his wife—poet Stephanie L. Harper—stepson, and cat. His first full-length collection, Our Loveliest Bruises, will be published by 3: A Taos Press in fall 2024 (not posthumously, he hopes). His poems may be found in Book of Matches, Threepenny Review, Muleskinner Journal, Only Poems, Vox Populi, Stone Circle Review, Shō Poetry Journal, The Big Windows Review, The Night Heron Barks, Indianapolis Review, and other venues.

Other poems by Robert Okaji in Verse Daily:
November 27, 2022:   "Memorial Day" "Arriving at this point..."

Other poems on the web by Robert Okaji:
"While Drowning I Gaze at the Moon"
"The Hollow"
"The Over/Under"
"These Upright Nights"
"What We Say When We Say Nothing"
Two poems
Three poems
"We Do What We Must"
Three poems
"While Walking My Dog's Ghost"
"Driving without Radio"
Three poems
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems
"How to Write a Poem"
"Clandestine"
"https://thebigwindowsreview.com/2022/01/18/robert-okaji-two-poems/"
"Bone Music"
"Scarecrow Dreams"
Three poems
"Yellow, Lost"
"Koan of Shivers"
Five poems
"In That Pause"
"When to Say Goodbye"
Two poems

Robert Okaji's Website.

Robert Okaji on Twitter.

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Shō Poetry Journal * Arizona
Editors: Johnny Cordova
Other poems by Shō Poetry Journal in Verse Daily:
April 29, 2024:   "Not My Country" by Andrew Payton
March 17, 2024:   "How to Cook a Wolf" by Nathan Xavier Osorio
March 15, 2024:   "How to Eat Like a King" by Jane Zwart
March 11, 2024:   "Deer Woman" by Sage Ravenwood
March 7, 2024:   "Caretaker" by Faith Gómez Clark

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