Saddiq Dzukogi — Learning about Constellations

A man whose baby daughter has died turns to stars, mythology, and imagination for solace. There, he encounters what might help, a little.

Saddiq Dzukogi is a poet and professor of English at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), and winner of the 2021 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Dzukogi is completing a PhD in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

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