Funto Omojola is a poet, performer, and visual artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. They have done projects with A.I.R. Gallery, Poetry Project, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and they have attended residencies at MacDowell, Millay Arts, Cave Canem Foundation and MASS MoCA. Omojola’s debut poetry collection, If I Gather Here and Shout, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books in November 2024. They hold an MFA from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.
In addition, Omojola is the founder of PrayerRoom, a virtual asynchronous prayer circle and participatory art project.
︎ funtofuntofunto@gmail.com
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In addition, Omojola is the founder of PrayerRoom, a virtual asynchronous prayer circle and participatory art project.
︎ funtofuntofunto@gmail.com
C.V.
︎︎︎ CLOSE READINGS: The Flow Chart Foundation
Thursday, February 22, 3 pm (Virtual Event)
I’ll be leading a virtual group thinking-and-reading-through of a poem by Myung Mi Kim followed by a short reading of my own work. Register here.
︎︎︎ Ritual & Rupture: A Reading and Conversation
February 22, 12 pm, Center for Intercultural Engagement at Northeastern University
︎︎︎ Publishing Expanded: Where Is Africa? Center for Art, Research and Alliances
February 10, 4pm at CARA
Reading and panel discussion with Mikael Awake, Moses Serubiri and Yayra Sumah, moderated by Matthew Shenoda. As a part of CARA’s first Publishing Expanded convening around the release of their new book, Where Is Africa.
︎ It Goes, It Goes: James Schuyler Centenary Celebration
Saturday, November 4, 2023, 5 pm, Dia Chelsea
I’ll be reading alongside Wayne Koestenbaum, Chad Morgan, Eileen Myles, Teline Trần, and others to be announced
︎ Coney Island “Wavewall”, organized by David Lindsay and Anonymous Gallery
Saturday October 21, 2023 @2 pm
with Geoffrey Mak, Drew Zebia, sgp and Ty Little
︎ Reading at Unnameable Books
May 19, 2023 @7PM
with Pamela Allen Brown, Alexis Gudding, Em Marie Kohl, Francisco Marquez, danilo machado, and Roz Naimi
︎ Reading for Segue Reading Series
April 29, 2023, @Artists Space
alongside writer and critic Jessica Lynne
︎ Poetry Project
April 17, 2023
as part of The Poetry Project’s Spring reading series, alongside Yesenia Montilla, author of the astonishing Muse Found in a Colonized Body, tickets here.
︎ Reading at The Poetry Project’s New Year’s Day Marathon
January 1, 2023, between 10 and 11PM
as part of The Poetry Project’s 49th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon, alongside a host of amazing poets and writers and artists, tickets here.
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Thursday, February 22, 3 pm (Virtual Event)
I’ll be leading a virtual group thinking-and-reading-through of a poem by Myung Mi Kim followed by a short reading of my own work. Register here.
︎︎︎ Ritual & Rupture: A Reading and Conversation
February 22, 12 pm, Center for Intercultural Engagement at Northeastern University
︎︎︎ Publishing Expanded: Where Is Africa? Center for Art, Research and Alliances
February 10, 4pm at CARA
Reading and panel discussion with Mikael Awake, Moses Serubiri and Yayra Sumah, moderated by Matthew Shenoda. As a part of CARA’s first Publishing Expanded convening around the release of their new book, Where Is Africa.
︎ It Goes, It Goes: James Schuyler Centenary Celebration
Saturday, November 4, 2023, 5 pm, Dia Chelsea
I’ll be reading alongside Wayne Koestenbaum, Chad Morgan, Eileen Myles, Teline Trần, and others to be announced
︎ Coney Island “Wavewall”, organized by David Lindsay and Anonymous Gallery
Saturday October 21, 2023 @2 pm
with Geoffrey Mak, Drew Zebia, sgp and Ty Little
︎ Reading at Unnameable Books
May 19, 2023 @7PM
with Pamela Allen Brown, Alexis Gudding, Em Marie Kohl, Francisco Marquez, danilo machado, and Roz Naimi
︎ Reading for Segue Reading Series
April 29, 2023, @Artists Space
alongside writer and critic Jessica Lynne
︎ Poetry Project
April 17, 2023
as part of The Poetry Project’s Spring reading series, alongside Yesenia Montilla, author of the astonishing Muse Found in a Colonized Body, tickets here.
︎ Reading at The Poetry Project’s New Year’s Day Marathon
January 1, 2023, between 10 and 11PM
as part of The Poetry Project’s 49th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon, alongside a host of amazing poets and writers and artists, tickets here.
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