Catalogue Of Strange Rivers
“—A kind of evil, beauty looks cold in the eye of the ringsaw / —In the river, a strange fish holds itself against the grey water with swift”
Ridwan Fasasi
Ridwan Fasasi, SWAN I, is a Nigerian editor, writer, and art curator of Yoruba Descent. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee whose works have appeared in ANMLY Lit, Chestnut Review, Frontier Poetry, Eunoia Review, Akpata Magazine, Lucent Dreaming, Strange Horizons, Hindsight Creative, among others. He is the winner of the 2024 Labari Prize for Poetry. His works have been shortlisted for the Sprinng Annual Poetry Contest, Gbemisola Adeoti Poetry Prize, Lucky Jefferson Poetry & Prose Contest, Splendor of Dawn Poetry Contest, SOBAF Poetry Slam, and also longlisted for the 2024 Akachi Prize for Literature. He is currently a reader at Anomalous Press and works as a reviewer at D’lit Review. Find him on Twitter (sorry X) @Ibn_Yushau44.