
Tag: Poetry


“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
