Poet
Ama Anyafulugo
Ama Anyafulugo is a Nigerian-American poet from Houston, Texas. Her work explores cultural memory and spiritual inheritance. Her poems move through narrative and fragmentation.
Ama is currently working on her debut chapbook, Ember
READ MY WORKSome of my earlier poems were published under a different name
Ama comes from the Igbo phrase “Anaghị ama n’anya”—
meaning what cannot be perceived with the eye.
It speaks to what is hidden, intangible, or not easily understood.
Anyafulugo means “the eye that has seen the eagle.”
In Igbo culture, the eagle represents glory and the rare.
To see the eagle is to witness something extraordinary.
The name holds two truths:
There are things the eye cannot grasp—
And there are moments when it sees what few ever do.