Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2019 Shortlist Announced
Ten up-and-coming African poets have been announced as the shortlist for the seventh Brunel International African Poetry Prize,…
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Memories From Childhood; Poem by Adesina Ayobami Idris
MEMORIES FROM CHILDHOOD (for Abdullahi) Credit: Yerwa Express during childhood // at iloko // we lived in our father’s…
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POEMS BY JOHN CHIZOBA VINCENT | WRITERS’ GALLERY
WEEK 2 LET THERE BE PEACE Let there be a new song of oneness Not from the old…
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Jorie Graham Wins $10,000 Bobbitt Poetry Prize
Jorie Graham has won the 2018 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for her 2017 collection “Fast.”…
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The Girl Whose Stars Hung In The Memory Of Pain And Agony, Poem by Adetayo Omotoyosi
(For Leah) Life in the hands of Boko Haramites Is a basket full of both pain and agonies …
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Short Story | Boy Are Not Intruders by Isoboye Danagogo
He had lost his innocence on a similar night at this, eighteen years ago. The moon had been…
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FWGE Day 16: Desires by Iliya Kambai Dennis
You were purple the day you stepped Out of your white smile. I remembered staring at you, Lost…
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FWGE Day 11: Sorry Jane, Come Tonight by Chenjerai Mhondera.
Sorry Jane-‘t wasn’t your turn; …
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FWGE: Day 8: Poe-matics by Adebayo Kolawole Samuel
for Bluestone I am an equation— Calculus of whirlings, thrummings & palpitations. I am a matrix— Gang of…
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Poetry: Once Upon A Politician by Naphtali Festus Adda
In the name of change, the descendants of an ancestor needed a people to foster their needs not…