The Apocalypse by Pacella Chukwuma-Eke

Pacella assumes a myriad of voices and personas in her poetry to explore an expanse of themes and subjects in this gazelle. There’s a cancer patient in their last hours commenting on their fate. Elsewhere Pacella writes about forbidden love. This poet constantly brings God up for questioning in her poems, and is probably why there’s an imminent apocalypse if she doesn’t get her answers. Her words overflow and become more songlike, to be animated on a stage. Maybe in another life she was a rapper. This is one goddamn conscious poet to read. 

Pacella Chukwuma-Eke is a Nigerian poet, short story writer and author of Love in its bliss and sins. She is the winner of the 2020 Cradle Poetry Contest, Splendours of Dawn Poetry Prize 2022, atwo-time finalist for the BKPW Contest, Joint Winner of the FOW Poetry Contest 2021, a 2022 Best of Net Nominee, a runner-up of the 2022 Nigeria Prize for Teen Authors (Poetry), and others.She has been published in Eunoia magazine, Strange Horizons, Brittle Paper, Rigorous, Haven Spec, and elsewhere. She is a member of The HillTop Creative Arts Foundation and tweets @dancing_poet.