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
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