What the Muezzin Taught Me About Line Brekas by Ibraheem Uthman

A childhood spent falling asleep to the Fajr call in Minna becomes an essay on where poetry’s real craft lives — not in what a line says, but in the silence it holds before the next one arrives. Uthman moves from a broken-toothed muezzin to Rumi to contemporary Hausa and Nigerian poets, building a genuinely original theory of the line break out of prayer.

Read it here: https://brittlepaper.com/2026/08/what-the-muezzin-taught-me-about-line-breaks-ibraheem-uthman-creative-non-fiction/