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April 23, 2018April 24, 2018 Kinna

“Oughta Be A Woman” by June Jordan #PoetryMonth

April 11, 2018April 12, 2018 Kinna

“Who Said It Was Simple” by Audre Lorde #PoetryMonth

April 8, 2018April 9, 2018 Kinna

“May This be a House of Joy” by Lucille Clifton #PoetryMonth

April 3, 2018April 5, 2018 Kinna

From “Winnie” by Gwendolyn Brooks as we begin April is #PoetryMonth

April 18, 2017April 18, 2017 Kinna

“There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women” by Audre Lorde

January 21, 2016January 21, 2016 Kinna

Jerome Reviews Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

November 17, 2015November 17, 2015 Kinna

“Power” by Audre Lorde

October 22, 2015 Kinna

“Now” by Audre Lorde

October 14, 2015October 10, 2015 Kinna

“the lost women” by Lucille Clifton

June 9, 2015June 9, 2015 Kinna

Jerome Reviews The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates

April 26, 2015May 24, 2015 Kinna

From “You are in the dark, in the car…” by Claudia Rankine

April 11, 2015May 24, 2015 Kinna

“here rests” by Lucille Clifton

September 3, 2014June 9, 2015 Kinna

“1994” by Lucille Clifton

October 23, 2013October 23, 2013 Kinna

Nikki Giovanni talks beer, reads ‘Quilts’ in Accra

April 19, 2013April 21, 2013 Kinna

21 Days/21 Poems: “I have been a stranger in a strange land” by Rita Dove

April 19, 2012June 15, 2013 Kinna

“blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton

April 23, 2011April 22, 2011 Kinna

21 Days/21 Poems: If We Must Die by Claude McKay

April 17, 2011April 17, 2011 Kinna

21 Days/21 Poems: The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks

March 1, 2011March 3, 2011 Kinna

fledgling – Octavia Butler

July 28, 2010June 15, 2013 Kinna

Poem #27: Mothers by Nikki Giovanni

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Kinna

Lifelong reader. I read mostly fiction. I enjoy world literature. I’m partial to women writers, especially African women writers. Here, you'll find commentary on novels, short stories and poems. In Accra, Ghana. Contact me at kinnareads at gmail dot com. Host of Africa Reading Challenge.

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