OPEN MIC OGBOMOSO · VOLUME I · YEAR FOUR
The Room, Gathered into a Book
EWÌ ’MOSHO is the first official anthology from Open Mic Ogbomoso. It gathers writing that first lived before an audience: poems spoken aloud, carried through the room and preserved beyond a single performance.
24 poems
Selected for the 2026 Reader Edition.
12 poets
Each connected to the Open Mic Ogbomoso performance record.
Reader Edition
ISBN and final publication metadata remain pending confirmation.
Literature as archive
The anthology is not the Open Mic itself. It is one output of the community: a publishing layer that gives selected work a durable record while the recurring gathering continues to make room for new voices, experiments and encounters.
The 2026 Reader Edition is curated and edited by Adetimilehin Inioluwa Victor (Vic’Adex) and prepared by Open Mic Ogbomoso with Vic’Adex Concepts and Aesthetic Resources.
Work that first lived before an audience, carried from the room onto the page.
About the title
’Mosho is drawn from Ogbomoso and echoes mo ìsọ́: to know what must be guarded. The title makes preservation active. The poems are not removed from the room; they carry its memory forward.