In Conversation

In Conversation is a podcast that features faculty from Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, talking with Dean Michael Horswell, Ph.D., about research and creative activity that spans the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Each episode spotlights a professor whose scholarly work is affecting the world in a significant way. Listeners will not only learn of the latest developments in the many academic disciplines of the college, but will gain insight into the creative and critical processes our scholars and artists brings to their projects. In Conversation is a production of Dr. Kevin Petrich and journalism students in FAU’s School of Communication and Multimedia Studies.

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In Conversation: Poetry of Exile and Witness (Full Podcast)

April 10, 2025 • Dean Michael Horswell, Ph.D. • Season 7 • Episode 5

Summary: Romeo Oriogun, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University, joins Dean Michael Horswell in our latest edition of In Conversation. They discuss poetry, migration, and the role of African literature in global literary discourse.

Romeo Oriogun is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University and explores themes of migration, queerness, and survival in his poetry and nonfiction.

A Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate, Oriogun is the author of Sacrament of Bodies, Nomad, and The Gathering of Bastards. He has received the Nigeria Prize for Literature, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize, the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.