POETRY
On the Phone with Father & Notes on Culture, The American Poetry Review, 2026
I Would Like My Queerness to Be Accounted For, The Florida Review, 2026
On Arriving at My Partner’s Place to Meet His Mother, The Rumpus, 2026
To Speak of White Spaces,TriQuarterly, 2025
What We Hold, Tupelo Quarterly, 2025
A Need to Pander & Alternate Reality, New England Review, 2025 (Print)
Ghazal for Becoming your Own Guardian & No One Teaches You Anything About Exile, Foglifter, 2024 (Print)
Strangers at a Bar in Chicago, Ninth Letter, 2024
In Which a Son and a Mother Meet at the Parking Lot of an Airport Where Queerness Attempts Not to Be a Metaphor for a Bridge, Porter House Review, 2024
Notes on Movement, Michigan Quarterly Review, 2024
Alternative Reality, The Greensboro Review, 2024 (Print)
Beautiful Boy with Garlands around His Waist, Salamander Magazine, 2023 (Print)
At a Queer Safe Space in Lagos, Poetry Wales, 2022 (Print)
Profile, POETRY MAGAZINE, 2021
Portrait of a Boy in Gorgeous Display, Fourteen Poems, 2021 (Print)
Mother is the Only God I Know, Ruminate Magazine, 2021 (Print)
if i die, what would my family write as my biography, 20.35 Africa, 2020
Survival, Cyber Smut Anthology, Guts Publishing, 2020 (Print)
Self-Portrait as White Spaces, The Penn Review, 2020
Prayer, Barren Magazine, 2019
FICTION
The Naming of Things, Lolwe, 2022
Love is Such a Morphing Thing, The Masters Review, 2020
NON-FICTION
The Primal Ache of Exile, Dappled Things, 2025 (Print)
Are You Laughing with Us or At Us? The Republic, 2024
Looking for God, The Republic, 2022
INTERVIEWS & PRESS
Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, Behind the Byline, New England Review, 2025
“Musicality in the Poetry of Healing: A Dialogue with Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau,” Africa in Dialogue, 2020
“Poetry as an Oscillating Universe: A Dialogue with David Ishaya Osu,” Africa in Dialogue, 2020
“A Wilful Act of Empathy: A Dialogue with Alexis Teyie,” Africa in Dialogue, 2020
“The Poetry of Unending Therapy: A Dialogue with Nica Cornell,” Africa in Dialogue, 2019
“Interview with Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, Author of I Know the Origin of My Tremor,” Sundress Publications, 2021
“Ugochukwu Damian Interview – Cyber Smut,” Guts Publishing, 2020
2020 Chapbook Contest Winner Announced
Outwrite 2020 Chapbook Contests
UGOCHUKWU DAMIAN OKPARA, writer & poet 