Beyond Aesthetics: Adioha's Amara and the Feminist Vision
Literature concerns itself with the imaginative vision of the writer and his or her effective use of language to create…
“Rant” by Mary McCarthy
Rant Your words like fists Beat me back Into a bad corner I Can’t defend Can’t see what you’ve got…
BN Poetry Award: SHE SITS by Edidiong Bassey (Nigeria)
This poem is longlisted for BN Poetry Award. On a swivel leather chair, She sits. She sits, Enclosed by walls…
BN Poetry Award: A Poem We Would Rather Forget by Sanya Noel (Kenya)
This poem is longlisted for BN Poetry Award. thirty one years after the Wagalla Massacre This is what you remember…
BN Poetry Award: A DIVORCE LETTER TO FEAR by Eseza Nabaggala (Uganda)
This poem is longlisted for BN Poetry Award. I don’t know what I was thinking when I decided to get…
BN Poetry Award: The Ghost of Jevanjee by Nyanduaki Okongo Omare (Kenya)
This poem is longlisted for BN Poetry Award. You knew he would visit you, sitting on the concrete bench, alone,…
BN Poetry Award: SUICIDE BOMBER by Emmanuel Okom (Nigeria)
This poem is shortlisted for the BN Poetry Award. Suicide Bomber, Suicide Bomber, With Death strapped to your chest like…
BN POETRY AWARD: My hair is loud! By Lua Davis (Cameroon)
This poem is longlisted for BN Poetry Award. Like the ricochet of voices rumbling down the streets of Washington, D.C.…
ORIGAMI to release Laura Kaminski's third collection.
ORIGAMI, an imprint of Parresia Publishers, is set to release DANCE HERE, a collection of poetry by Laura M. Kaminski…
Women's Day Series: Black Woman Down, Black Woman Up
“left” © OsyMizpah Unuevho Black Woman Down, Black Woman Up by Shirley Jones-Luke after JP Howard We black women…