What a powerful, beautifully written, terrifying sample. This work deserves to be completed.”  — Speculative Literature Foundation Diverse Writers Grant Jurors on “How Dead Men Come Back Home”

“Reckless. Full of bravado. These poems were straight nasty, in the best way: poems that do not care about comfort — their aim, to jolt us all out of our chairs.” — Diamond Forde on my 2023 Jerome K. Phipps poems

“I don’t often have to stop and ask myself while reading, “How amazing is this?” But I had to do so at every page here.” — Juan Carols Reyes on “The Women in My Life are Unfinished Portraits”

“Here is an intriguing, adventurous story told with a sense of transgression and a gentle, refreshing mischief—an attempt to capture “bad-assness” in prose as well as the fragmentary nature of identity.” — Gerald Kraak jurors on “The Women in My Life are Unfinished Portraits”

“The reader will find themselves weeping, laughing, even struggling for breath as they try to keep up, but will never be bored. What a glorious and unabashed path Olorunnisola has crafted here, arriving at one necessary truth after the other.” — Saida Agostini on Shakespeares in the Ghetto

“Kanyinsola’s poems cast the blazing light of an uncompromising interrogator…into his own personal experience and history, onto global experience and history as it is still being written by oppression, delusion, and denial.” — Laura M. Kaminski on In My Country, We’re All Crossdressers

“What makes this story so gutsy is how its crucial details are revealed in slow-burning nuggets.” — Afrocritik on “Captain, What Does a Bomb Taste Like?”