This page is lists 100 of the most recent posts on poetry and poems published here at Kinna Reads. Posts are displayed in reverse chronological order.

• “Wrong Number Number Two” by Ama Ata Aidoo #PoetryMonth
• “The Banquet” by Wana Udobang #PoetryMonth
• “Oughta Be A Woman” by June Jordan #PoetryMonth
• “Bathing in Lake Victoria” by Ngwatilo Mawiyoo #PoetryMonth
• “Our Mother Died Expecting” by Efe Paul Azino #PoetryMonth
• “2 Pelicans” by Ali Cobby Eckermann #PoetryMonth
• “This Zinc Roof” by Kei Miller #PoetryMonth
• “Mathematician” by Poetra Asantewa #PoetryMonth
• “The Afternoon Sun” by C. P. Cavafy #PoetryMonth
• “Who Said It Was Simple” by Audre Lorde #PoetryMonth
• “My Mother in Three Photographs” by Susan Kiguli #PoetryMonth
• “Kumukanda” by Kayo Chingonyi. #PoetryMonth
• “May This be a House of Joy” by Lucille Clifton #PoetryMonth
• “Song of Winnie” by Gwendolyn Brooks #PoetryMonth
• From “Winnie” by Gwendolyn Brooks as we begin April is #PoetryMonth
• “Black Joy” by Koleka Putuma
• “II ii – I have to think about what it means to be here…” by Dionne Brand
• “Self Portrait With No Flag” by Safia Elhillo
• “There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women” by Audre Lorde
• “In Time of War” by Eli Tetteh
• For #InternationalWomensDay: “On Reading Jackie Kay” by Ama Ata Aidoo
• “There are stories” by Nana Nyarko Boateng
• “Power” by Audre Lorde
• “A Falling” by Ama Ata Aidoo
• “I Want You to Know” by Micere Githae Mugo
• “Now” by Audre Lorde
• “the lost women” by Lucille Clifton
• “How We Forget” By Loyce Gayo
• “What We Want” by Mary Oliver
• “Translations” by Adrienne Rich
• 10 Poetry Books To Add To Your Reading List
• “Unclaimed” by Clifton Gachagua
• From “You are in the dark, in the car…” by Claudia Rankine
• “Some of My Worst Wounds” by Lorna Goodison
• “Since you” by Dionne Brand
• “Dust to Dust” by Tsitsi Jaji
• “here rests” by Lucille Clifton
• “Tonight” by Ladan Osman
• In Search of the New for (US) National Poetry Month
• “Freezing in Sunshine” by Ama Ata Aidoo
• “September, 2053” by Nana Nyarko Boateng
• “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
• 21 Days/21 Poems: “I have been a stranger in a strange land” by Rita Dove
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Naked by Tari Mtetwa
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Grass will Grow by Jonathan Kariara
• 21 Days/ 21 Poems: Jolademi by Lola Shoneyin
• 21 Days/ 21 Poems: Under and Over by Shailja Patel
• 21 Days/ 21 Poems: Oregon Elegy by Christian Campbell
• 21 Days/ 21 Poems: When Clothes Were Small by Tamer Fathy
• 21 Days/ 21 Poems: Castletown, Isle of Man by Jackie Kay
• Another 21 Days/21 Poems for (US) National Poetry Month
• ‘My Faithful Mother Tongue’ by Czeslaw Milosz
• ‘langwij’
• Losing a Language by W.S. Merwin
• As Though Exiled From Myself
• “Their Behaviour” by Dennis Brutus
• “blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton
• “Grown Up” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• “Love After Love” by Derek Walcott
• April is (US) National Poetry Month and we head to Ithaka
• Wislawa Szymborska (2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012)
• “To the New Year” by W. S. Merwin
• “On Last Lines” – Suzanne Buffam
• “To Any Reader” – Robert Louis Stevenson
• “There is no Frigate like a Book” – Emily Dickinson
• Wangari Maathai, “Dear Fresh Spirit”
• “Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?”
• “I lost my mother’s watch”
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Some Part of the Lyric by Gregory Orr
• 21 Days/21 Poems: wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton
• 21 Days/21 Poems: The Bridge Between by Rethabile Masilo
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Marrysong by Dennis Scott
• 21 Days/21 Poems: The Meaning of Africa by Abioseh Nicol
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Up-Hill by Christina Rossetti
• 21 Days/21 Poems: If We Must Die by Claude McKay
• 21 Days/21 Poems: This Was Once a Love Poem by Jane Hirshfield
• 21 Days/21 Poems: From “Under Milk Wood” by Dylan Thomas
• 21 Days/21 Poems: The Dancer by Gcina Mhlope
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Purple Bathing Suit by Louise Glück
• 21 Days/ 21 Poems: Sick by Shel Silverstein
• 21 Days/21 Poems: The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Ode to My Socks by Pablo Neruda
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Sunflowers by Pamela Mordecai