Omawole Jesse Alexander is a Apprentice Griot, Perpetual Abecedarian, ol' Bell Head, wonderer, Hacker, Ham, and Window Through Which The "I Am" Shines. His work has won second place in the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Zero Hunger in the First World Food Day 2018 Contest and placed as a finalist in the 1999 Paterson Literary Review’s Allen Ginsberg Poetry contest. He has been featured at the Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church’s annual poetry service, Knitting Factory, Groove Drops, and the Sumei Multidisciplinary Center, and his work has appeared in the Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism and Side With Love’s Collaborative Project, ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes, Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora, Sojourners Magazine, The Drumming Between Us: Black Love & Erotic Poetry, Drumvoices Revue: A Confluence of Literary, Cultural & Vision Arts, and the anthologies Rhyme & Rituals: Reflections of Self, Family & Community and PoetryWorks Anthology. Omawole Jesse is a member of the National Writer’s Union.
A 17 year veteran of Bell Labs, Jesse holds a Master of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from Howard University. He supports his poetry, amateur radio, science, comic book, and science fiction addictions by developing documentation for the cloud computing industry.
personal statement:
"I have been writing poetry and prose, and blowing fuses since I was 8 years old...and I write to collect the various and sundry parts of myself and project them into the future. My storytelling Mother taught me how to love a song for the song's sake, and my non-profit executive Father taught me to appreciate the structure in all things..."
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