POETRY & CREATIVE WRITING
Words, Memory & the Poetic Imagination
Through poetry, Professor Ulasi explores identity, memory, culture, history and the complexities of human experience, bringing together the personal, the social and the deeply cultural.
SELECTED WORKS
A Life in Poetry
Poetry has remained an important dimension of Professor Ulasi’s creative and intellectual life. His work engages the tensions between tradition and modernity, memory and change, homeland and diaspora, giving voice to experiences shaped by culture, history and place.
Demigods of the Rainy Season
New Poems
- 1994 - Gong Press
A collection of poems reflecting the rhythms of memory, culture, place and the human experience through the poetic imagination.
Land of Ignoble Traditions
- New and Collected Poems
- Forthcoming — Summer 2026
- Southern Illinois University Press
A new and collected body of poetry bringing together Professor Ulasi's continuing engagement with culture, history, memory and the changing realities of society.
SELECTED WRITING
Poems, Reflections & Cultural Memory
Poetry / Creative Works
- The Rainy Season
DrumVoices Review, 2000
- The Poet's Voice in Open Sea
Profiles International, 1994
- I Have Embraced The Harmattan Tide
- For Christopher Okigbo
- Nigeria Adrift In Descent
- The Moral Bankruptcy of Nigeria's Political Class
- Nigeria's Third Republic: Can Democracy Survive?
- Verdict of “Agwu” the Madman
- Masquerades at a Harvest Dance
THE POET'S VOICE
Poetry as Cultural Memory
For Professor Ulasi, poetry is more than literary expression. It is a way of remembering, questioning and interpreting the world.
His creative writing reflects an enduring engagement with African identity, cultural memory, history, social change and the experiences of individuals and communities navigating a changing world.
Across decades of scholarship, filmmaking and cultural work, poetry remains one of the spaces through which ideas become voice, memory becomes story, and experience becomes art.
Scholarship may explain the world. Poetry allows us to feel it.
Explore the Stories Behind the Words
Discover Professor Ulasi’s work as a screenwriter and storyteller across film and multimedia.