Category: Poetry
“1994” by Lucille Clifton
“Yaa” by Nana Nyarko Boateng
“We promise we shall build the new cities over your bodies” – Kofi Awoonor. It’s his birthday!
“Vacating an Apartment” by Agha Shahid Ali
A haiku by Kobayashi Issa as we start the New Year with January in Japan
“The thicker the woods, the vaster the vista: the Valley of Obviously.” – Utopia by Wislawa Symzborska
Nikki Giovanni talks beer, reads ‘Quilts’ in Accra
“my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell” by Gwendolyn Brooks
‘For Bessie Head’ by Ama Ata Aidoo
21 Days/21 Poems: ‘Lagoon’ by Odia Ofeimun
21 Days/21 Poems: ‘Discovery’ by Olive Senior
21 Days/21 Poems: ‘My Abebà’ by Ribka Sibhatu
21 Days/21 Poems: ‘The Cry of the Bird” by Nimrod
21 Days/21 Poems: ‘Eclipse’ by Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang
21 Days/21 Poems: ‘Ugly’ by Warsan Shire
21 Days/21 Poems: ‘won’t you celebrate with me’ by Lucille Clifton
21 Days/21 Poems: ‘Stank with Sweat’ by Nana Nyarko Boateng
21 Days/21 Poems: “I Don’t Miss It” by Tracy K. Smith