Every Little Thing That Moves

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Every Little Thing That Moves

[Anthology, 40 pages, 2024]

The author examines the tragic effects of migration, displacement, and loss on the human experience in this stirring and moving collection of poems. The poems explore the pain of separation, the yearning for a faraway home, and the battle to cling to memories in the face of absence with unvarnished honesty and real passion. The author portrays the universal human experience of looking for identity and belonging in a difficult and oftentimes cruel environment through an extremely intimate and personal perspective. This book is a welcome and essential addition to the literary canon because of its themes of migration, displacement, and the search for one’s place in the world.

EXCERPT

I care about an alternate dimension.

Negative attention is a waste of breath.

Life gives the odds; you place your bet,

play your cards, & rig the game.

I’ve been living my dreams lately—

this is one of the ghost stories.

Every man knows where he hailed from

because we are heading to the gravestone

(From “Another Piece of Ghost Stories”)

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In this beautiful and heartbreaking collection, "Every Little Thing That Moves," Emerald tackles complex juxtapositions like grief/hope, migrants/home, and war/humanity in such a way that forces us to face the things that tear us apart head-on. These poems, which often proudly and boldly announce that they are poems, do an exceptional job of reminding us of the weight and power of words.

Eric Scot Tryon

Founding Editor, Flash Frog

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Oladosu Michael Emerald is a writer, artist, and actor. He is the author of “Every Little Thing That Moves,” an Art editor at Surging Tide magazine and editor at MAAR Review. Instructor at The Arnheim Art Gallery, and YAAH.

He is a Best of Net nominee. He is the winner of the Off the Limit Contest, Sprinng Poetry Contest, GPC Neurodivergent Poetry Contest, and Sine Qua Non Inaugural Poetry Prize.

His works have been published or are forthcoming in Chestnut Review, FIYAH, ONLY POEMS, Lolwe, Temz Review, and elsewhere.

He is the Pioneer Fellow of the Muktar Aliyu Art Residency.