Uche Ogbuji

Greater Denver Area United States

Poet, editor, public speaker, spoken word performer, DJ, composer, engineer, entrepreneur, traveler

Writing / Publishing

More fully Úchèńnà Ogbújí, a poet, spoken word performer and DJ. Books include a chapbook, Ndewo, Colorado (Aldrich Press, USA, 2013), a Colorado Book Award and Westword Award Winner (“Best Environmental Poetry”), and Ńchéfù Road (Black Spring Press Group, UK, 2022), which won the Christopher Smart Prize. Work fuses Igbo culture, European classicism, American Mountain West setting, Hip-Hop and afrofuturism. 2022 Boulder County Arts Fellow for Literature and Music, and board member, Colorado Poets Center. Born in Calabar, Nigeria; settled near Boulder, Colorado after much world wandering.