poems
““-the greatest idea yet-,” “"Biafra, 1968,” and “Tomorrow, Chaka Demus Will Play”” (reprinted) - Márọkọ́: Journal of African Poetry, 2022
“Affliction” - Poetry Northwest, 2022
“—the greatest idea yet—” - Black Poetry Review, 2021
“Spontaneous Repulsion” (reprinted) - Verse Press ‘Pick Up Your Feelings’ playlist, 2021
“"Accra Wedding," "Depraved Indifference," and "In from the Rain"” - Southeast Review, 2020
““The Eventualities Come,” “That Which Means,” and “Inward Aspect”” - Foglifter, 2020 (nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize)
“Known & Lesser Catastrophes” - already felt, 2020
“Spontaneous Repulsion” - BOAAT Journal, 2020
“Bop: Righteousness” (reprinted) - The Against Nature Journal, 2020 (here’s a video of me reading the poem for Council’s online launch)
“Dead Worship” - The Bare Life Review, 2019
“Black Lagoon” and “Ghazal with Open Throat” - wildness, 2019
“My Mother’s Sister Schools Me on Her Garden” - HERE: Poems for the Planet, 2019
“Mother Confirms My Origin Sin” - jubilat, 2019
zines (archived; contact me if interested in copies/trade)
dawadawa (2013-14)
nearly there: writing & art by qtpoc (2010)
ribald 1, 2, & 3 (2006-2008)
fiction
Excerpt from In Sanguine Blue Rooms - MORIA Literary Magazine, 2022
“Zazi” from Flat 17 - Quarterly West: Queer Time & Space, 2020 (nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize)
“The End of All Things” - Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, 2016
non-fiction/reviews
“on Nervous by Jen Soriano” – The Georgia Review, 2023
“on Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So” - The Georgia Review: GR2, 2022
““Be no longer resemblance”: Warring the Blood in Thabile Makue’s ‘mamaseko” - Kenyon Review, 2020
“Prairie of Refuge” - Ninth Letter, 2017
“Chibok Girls and Black Women’s Resistance Work” - Black Girl Dangerous, 2014
interviews/other
The Single Greatest Choice, Meet Chekwube, SMBC to be (Season 4, Episode 10)
MORIA Literary Magazine, "The Bridge in Black Communities: An Interview with Chekwube Danladi" by Nicole Favors
The Occidental, “Writer in Residence Chekwube Danladi is edgy, tender and accomplished”
Open Country Mag, “28 Writers Go Deep into Love, in Art and Life”
Terrault Gallery, Baltimore, “The Eventualities Come” (solo exhibit by artist KT Duffy)
Smile Politely, “What’s Lit at Pygmalion 2017”
The NDR Blog, “Contributor Interview with Chekwube Danladi”
Poetry Society of America, “Ten New-Generation African Poets”
Daily Trust Nigeria, Interview with Nathaniel Bivan
Interview with Geosi Gyasi, “Interview with Shortlisted 2016 BUAPP Shortlisted Writer, Chekwube O. Danladi”