Possibilities on every blank page: Interview with Babatunde Waliyullah Adesokan for the Stripes Literary Magazine UNTHEMED Issue.
Stripes Literary Magazine chats up Babatunde, our contributor to the #unthemed Issue 2.3 who dreams possibilities with every blank page.
What does a blank page mean to you?
A blank page means a new beginning. Or an offering of different possibilities, yet to be given or written.
What is the wildest thing you have done for the sake of your art?
I write lines while making love to punctuate each of that indescribable feeling.
Do you have a poem, book, story, or song you always return to like it is home?
I always return to Mahmoud Darwish's translated work.
Tell us about your mentors, role models and the creators you look up to.
Jide Badmus can turn any pedestrain feeling into a love poem.
Ayeyemi Taofeek undertands nature so much that he can translate the language of swaying leaves.
Rasaq Malik Gbolahan is so loyal to poetry that his daily speaks can be "sonnetified".
Pastor Kola Samuel who shows how poetry can be a deification.
What issues do you feel creatives do not address that they should have?
Finding the symmetry between football and poetry.
Babatunde Waliyullah Adesokan (Toonday) writes from Oyo State, Nigeria. He works with Firstbank. He is a lover of poetry; a lover of everything that breathes poetry. His works appeared / forthcoming in Pangolin Review, Wales Haiku, Ethel-Zine, Shallowtales Review, Stillwater Review, RoadRunnerReview, Lucent Dreaming etc.
Follow him on social media
Twitter:@tunde_adesokan
Instagram: @toondayatkins
Facebook: tunde.w.adesokan
You can read more of Babatunde Waliyullah Adesokan's work here or here.
UNTHEMED is scheduled for publication in October 2022.
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