Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “BLUSH” by stephanie roberts.

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BLUSH

By stephanie roberts

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Copyright © Jide Salawu

Forthcoming in Contraband Bodies, NeWest Press and Narrative Landscape, Fall 2025

Jide Salawu is a Canada-based Nigerian literary scholar and poet. He is the founding conversationalist at Brown Bamboo. Salawu is the author of Preface for Leaving Homeland published under African Poetry Book Fund in 2019 and the co-editor of African Urban Echoes published by Griots Lounge Canada, 2025. Salawu’s full-length poetry collection, Contraband Bodies, will be published in Fall 2025 by NeWest Press (Canada) and Narrative Landscape (Nigeria).

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