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 compound // with 4 moon // &…
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Ramadan Poem | Day 4: Burning Sins by Onafowokan Taofeek Busayo
As for the lunar month We sniff and smear Await time Burning Like the darkness of the night This is for the sacred days We…
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FWGE Day 15: The Bittersweet Death of The Love Affair by Abigail George
(for the Dutch poet Joop Bersee) I have nowhere to go. The nurse had a mouthful to say. Her tongue got tangled up in the…
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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.” The biennial award is presented by the…
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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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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 And chameleons that changes colour Where Sauntering…
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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 numbers lost in the depths of squares….
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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 just as bright when Father John invited…
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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 in thoughts and illusions. I should have…
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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 with broken manifestoes but fulfilled promises they…