I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life. I want a peek at the back Where it’s rough and untended and hungry weed grows. A girl gets sick of a rose. I want to go in the back yard…
Poetry
A HORSE DIES ONCE THAT IS A LIE
BY ROSEBUD BEN-ONI Somewhere in kentucky she went for kicks spiked polka-dot mint julep grade 1 stakes white-gloved clubhouse how-you-do-sees until all the horses broke their legs & for all the horses my ex join the seine-et-oise thoroughbred liberation front & she crashed…
ARGUMENT FROM THE STREET OF AJEGUNLE.PUBLIC
Kid A). Okocha play ball pass Neymar, (Kid B). Stop there’ if na play’ waytin u know about football. Who be okocha for were Neymer they thaa? I laughed faintly I jejely humble myself relaxed my back against one dongoyaro…
Malcolm X, February 1965
Malcolm X, February 1965 BY E. ETHELBERT MILLER i will die this month. how i do not know. still there is much work to be done. i am afraid not for myself but for betty and the girls. some nights i…
Junior poets laureate share vision for promoting poetry
Poetry is alive and well at North Andover High School – and may be about to become even livelier. Talia Brown and Izabel Ferrao, both juniors at the high school, were recently selected as the junior poets laureate at the…
Former Greenwich resident pens first book of poetry
Sandra Berris’ life has been chock-full of experiences. In college, she would sometimes listen to Bob Dylan records at the home of Karl Shapiro, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and her professor. One evening, she attended Shapiro’s dinner party, where Allen…
*INFERNAL SLASH*
Pierced with thorns of gloom, ritual in booze. Born a full loom, psychic in blues. Scars on chest markings so subtle. Scabbard blest with milk of battle. Suffer me a Surf-way down to boiling clay, from scathes shant flee where…
Meet the Ooni of Ife, the leader of Nigeria’s Yoruba
A former entrepreneur, King Ojaja II became one of the youngest kings in Nigeria when he ascended to the throne in 2015. It’s a sweltering hot day in Ife, an ancient city in the southwestern state of Osun that is…
Palmerston North father and son poets achieve unique double billing
Palmertston North poet Tim Upperton had a poem included in the latest edition of Best New Zealand Poems, along with his son Oscar. Palmerston North poet Tim Upperton celebrated National Poetry Day early, and in a unique way. National Poetry…