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, a major annual prize aimed at the…
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Four Poems to Celebrate world festival of poetry to promote world peace
To celebrate world festival of poetry and promote peace, below are four published poems by Ghanian poets: 1. Found Song ‘…Bob Marley’s one love fades…
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Nothing Much for Minors, Poem by Sahaj Sabharwal
Minors are those less than eighteen, As they don’t have knowledge in keen. They don’t have a driving licence, As don’t have driving sense. Minors…
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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 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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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…
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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…