Nigerian-American poet Olatunde Osinaike published a searing debut poetry collection last year on December 5, 2023 with Akashic Books.
Aptly titled Tender Headed, the stunningly tender poetry of Osinaike speak to Black identity and masculinity in the contemporary age in America.
Osinaike gained quite a bit of notoriety due to the fact that his manuscript for Tender Headed was selected by American poet Camille Rankine as the winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series.
But Tender Headed is not merely tender in the content of the poems, but in form as well as Osinaike's poetic voice is both musical and formally playful.
Rankine praises the debut collection in her preface to the book, remarking that Osinaike brings out the musical quality of language as the words dance across the page for the attentive reader
