Omowole Jesse Alexander

Omowole Jesse N. Alexander is a son of Jesse, patriarch of the Alexander clan, leader, organizer, Raceman, and Maude Anna, Griot, visionary artist, poet, muse, teacher, Ancestor. He lives on Piscataway land in Maryland. We are a stolen but thriving people, living on stolen land.

Omowole Jesse is a teacher, a mentor, a writer, an Apprentice Griot, a Perpetual Abecedarian; an ol' Bell Head, a former wireless systems Engineer, a Hacker, a window through which the "I Am" Shines, a knowmad, Ham Radio Operator, a Nerd, a Blerd, a life member of ΑΦΑ Fraternity, Inc., a Free-Range Unitarian Universalist, a visionary poet.

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 lead the creation of the 3 part Harmony cento using Github with visitors and patrons of The Three Part Harmony Farm, and support from the U. S. Department of Arts and Culture.

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, and science fiction addictions by managing knowledge 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 and remember the various and sundry parts of myself and project them into the future."