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Omotara James

Omotara James
Omotara James is the author of Song of My Softening (Alice James Books, 2024), featured on NPR’s "Morning Edition" and the Washington Post Book Club. She is a New York City-based writer, editor, and teaching artist. Her poems appear in print and online in The American Poetry Review, BOMB, The Nation, and elsewhere. James is the recipient of the 2023 J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation, fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts, Cave Canem Foundation, Lambda Literary, and support from the African Poetry Book Fund.


“Kiese Says, Black People Deserve Beautiful Sentences, but a Fragment is the Best I Can Do / Songbook for the Names I Have Been Called,” a Poem by Omotara James

From the Collection “Song of My Softening”
July 15, 2024  By Omotara James
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