Omowole Jesse N. Alexander is a son of Maude Anna, Griot, visionary artist, poet, muse, teacher, Knowledge Keeper, Ancestor, member ZΦB Sorority, and Jesse, patriarch of the Alexander clan, leader, organizer, Raceman, Lt. US Army Retired.
He lives on land stolen from the Piscataway in Maryland.
Omowole Jesse is a “poète engagé”*, a teacher, an Apprentice Griot, a Perpetual Abecedarian, an ol' Bell Head, a wireless systems Engineer, a Hacker, a window through which The "I Am" Shines, knowmad, a Ham Radio Operator, a Nerd, a Blerd, a life member of ΑΦΑ incorporated, and a Free-Range librarian.
His poetry has won second place in the First 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 Grace Cavalieri’s The Poet and the Poem 2020-21 Series, Words out Loud Virtual Reading, Evil Grin, the Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church’s Annual Poetry Service, The Knitting Factory, Groove Drops, and the Sumei Multidisciplinary Center. His work has appeared in Remembering Amiri Baraka, Free Black Space: Content and Code for those Living in the Black, Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora, Sojourners Magazine, The Drumming Between Us: Black Love & Erotic Poetry, and Drumvoices Revue: A Confluence of Literary, Cultural & Vision Arts.
He has recently published a collection of poems, entitled “the light box: the light box: prayers, spirituals, poems.”
Contacts: https://linktr.ee/scipoet
Omowole Jesse is listed in the Poets & Writers directory.
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..."
* “The presence, from the epiphanic visitations to the [founders of the faith] and from the Mosaic theophany to the prophetic vision of call and commission, causes the recipient of the word to become a “poète engagé.” [They] must act in history though other [people].” from Terrien, Samuel; The Elusive Presence: The Heart of Biblical Theology; Happer & Row Publishers; San Francisco; 1978; pp. 233. It is sentence, my Uncle George Alexander highlighted.