Taking Poetry off the Pages: A Glimpse of 2015 Lagos International Poetry Festival
The Centre of Excellence once again showed off its beautiful colours during the 2015 Lagos International Poetry Festival which kicked…
Women's Day Series: Days Are Coming
“soapwater queen” © OsyMizpah Unuevho Days Are Coming by Chiamaka Nwabueze (Tiana) Days are coming, When all company would turn…
Jory Mickelson: Two Poems
Photo by Marina Reich on Unsplash Johnathan to David after Hannah VanderHart What is shameful about this nakedness? I have…
“Cover The Mirrors” by Lynn White
image source: pixabay.com Cover The Mirrors All the mirrors were covered every night in my grandmother’s house draped with coloured…
Love is an Animal Thing
Love is an Animal Thing For Chibuzo Anuonye, for buying a TV set that year. Whoever football did not make…
Flourish Joshua: Two Poems
Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay A Psalm of Body Hawkers ¹ Today, we move, again; past the…
“Void” by Lynn White
image source: pexels.com Void There are dark misty spaces topped by the blackest clouds, so that I can’t see into…
“My Mind” by Rahama Abdulkadri
My Mind These words you are about to read; Have never been written in ink. These are the manifestations of…
“The flow” by Abunic Sherif II
Image by Mariusz Prusaczyk from Pixabay The flow when next you walk to the river; sit down on the bank…
“December Breaths” by Femi Ayo-Tubosun
image source: pearls.com DECEMBER BREATHS Harmattan reminds me of Katsina- A tired land breathing through gruff pathways. Stuffed nostrils wheezing,…