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April 25, 2018May 2, 2018 Kinna

“Wrong Number Number Two” by Ama Ata Aidoo #PoetryMonth

April 18, 2018April 20, 2018 Kinna

“2 Pelicans” by Ali Cobby Eckermann #PoetryMonth

April 17, 2018April 19, 2018 Kinna

“This Zinc Roof” by Kei Miller #PoetryMonth

April 12, 2018April 16, 2018 Kinna

“The Afternoon Sun” by C. P. Cavafy #PoetryMonth

April 10, 2018April 11, 2018 Kinna

“My Mother in Three Photographs” by Susan Kiguli #PoetryMonth

April 8, 2018April 9, 2018 Kinna

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

March 22, 2018March 23, 2018 Kinna

“Black Joy” by Koleka Putuma

April 20, 2017 Kinna

“Self Portrait With No Flag” by Safia Elhillo

April 18, 2017April 18, 2017 Kinna

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

May 13, 2015May 24, 2015 Kinna

“Translations” by Adrienne Rich

April 29, 2015May 24, 2015 Kinna

“Unclaimed” by Clifton Gachagua

April 26, 2015May 24, 2015 Kinna

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

March 13, 2014March 13, 2014 Kinna

“We promise we shall build the new cities over your bodies” – Kofi Awoonor. It’s his birthday!

November 5, 2013November 6, 2013 Kinna

“The thicker the woods, the vaster the vista: the Valley of Obviously.” – Utopia by Wislawa Symzborska

April 2, 2013April 2, 2013 Kinna

21 Days/ 21 Poems: Castletown, Isle of Man by Jackie Kay

March 21, 2013June 8, 2013 Kinna

As Though Exiled From Myself

April 27, 2012June 2, 2013 Kinna

“Their Behaviour” by Dennis Brutus

April 18, 2012 Kinna

“Grown Up” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

April 17, 2012 Kinna

“Love After Love” by Derek Walcott

April 12, 2012March 21, 2013 Kinna

April is (US) National Poetry Month and we head to Ithaka

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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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