Nothing counts For sacred In a benighted land Of bewigged kangaroos Profaning the temple In cahoots with cows As cattle...
Five more excerpts from the forthcoming Augusta’s Poodle (Poems of Childhood) by Ogaga Ifowodo XVIII Suddenly, the wizened old poet...
Gates transcend physical representations. This is not surprising, considering how gates can double as milestones for beginnings, entry, growth, exit,...
Dear teacher and pagan, With prim fronds I thee wed. Is there palmwine in Paradise? The homy spirit...
From the onset, Nomad, the Nigeria Prize for Literature-winning collection of over sixty poems by Romeo Oriogun, shows something striking,...
Greatness interrupted A promising future truncated Unbeknownst, she boarded Charon’s ferry Hijacked by fiends in search of quarry Hippocrates was...
Five excerpts from the forthcoming Augusta’s Poodle (Poems of Childhood) by Ogaga Ifowodo XI But how much do I...
Every war bequeaths on us a new vocabulary Of death and suffering and carnage We learn of new words and...
When I write poetry, I try to draw from a well deep within my soul, sometimes, this well dries up...
With the current state of the world, it could be difficult to process all the things that make the news,...
Who was Abami Eda? You mean Fela? Oh, that strange being! Funny you should say so, Abami Eda means strange...
The literary hub of Montreal once again opens its arms to the world’s poets as the prestigious Montreal International Poetry...