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Precious Okpechi, poet and managing editor of 20.35 Africa

Precious Okpechi

Precious Okpechi is a poet and the Managing Editor of 20.35 Africa. He is an alumnus of the Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop and The Singing Bullet Writing Workshop. His works appear in Palette Poetry, Lolwe, The Shore, Isele Magazine, and Kissing Dynamite.

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October 12, 2026

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Volume IX: “Sit with Their Grief . . . Reconcile with the Devastation”

The poems in 20.35 Africa Volume IX, guest-edited by Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie and Antony Fangary, “remind us that the suffering in the world is inflicted by us, on us,” but also “that the thick layered air of exhaustion has not rid us of our . . . dreams.”
Precious Okpechi

September 14, 2025

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. VIII: “The Desired and the Divine”

Of the eighth volume guest-edited by Sarah Lubala and Logan February, managing editor Precious Okpechi writes: “The way we express joy, the way our longings fold out of our skin, is skewed by the weight of customs.”
Precious Okpechi

September 18, 2024

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. VII: “This Grasping for Hope Walks with Us”

20.35 Africa Vol. VII, guest-edited by Kwame Opoku-Duku, is introduced by managing editor Precious Okpechi: “A sense of belonging permeates the poems in this anthology, an acceptance of one’s place in a flawed world.”
Precious Okpechi

August 5, 2023

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. VI: “Creating a New Tradition in African Poetry”

20.35 Africa Vol. VI, edited by Nick Makoha and Safia Jama, is introduced by the series’ managing editor Precious Okpechi: “The poets understand that history evolves with us.”
Precious Okpechi

September 17, 2022

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. V: “An Adoption of Language to Contain This Violence”

These “conversations are as absurd as they are beautiful,” writes the poetry series’ managing editor Precious Okpechi. “This is what literature does: bare life’s absurdity and beauty.”
Precious Okpechi

October 12, 2026

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Volume IX: “Sit with Their Grief . . . Reconcile with the Devastation”

The poems in 20.35 Africa Volume IX, guest-edited by Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie and Antony Fangary, “remind us that the suffering in the world is inflicted by us, on us,” but also “that the thick layered air of exhaustion has not rid us of our . . . dreams.”
Precious Okpechi

September 14, 2025

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. VIII: “The Desired and the Divine”

Of the eighth volume guest-edited by Sarah Lubala and Logan February, managing editor Precious Okpechi writes: “The way we express joy, the way our longings fold out of our skin, is skewed by the weight of customs.”
Precious Okpechi

September 18, 2024

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. VII: “This Grasping for Hope Walks with Us”

20.35 Africa Vol. VII, guest-edited by Kwame Opoku-Duku, is introduced by managing editor Precious Okpechi: “A sense of belonging permeates the poems in this anthology, an acceptance of one’s place in a flawed world.”
Precious Okpechi

August 5, 2023

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. VI: “Creating a New Tradition in African Poetry”

20.35 Africa Vol. VI, edited by Nick Makoha and Safia Jama, is introduced by the series’ managing editor Precious Okpechi: “The poets understand that history evolves with us.”
Precious Okpechi

September 17, 2022

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. V: “An Adoption of Language to Contain This Violence”

These “conversations are as absurd as they are beautiful,” writes the poetry series’ managing editor Precious Okpechi. “This is what literature does: bare life’s absurdity and beauty.”
Precious Okpechi

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