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“dub poetry has been described as…‘over-compensation for deprivation’” Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry…
Wunna tink ol’ man ain’t special like he don’t got stars in he back pocket, too Like he can’t move like dese young boys fresh blood hot and…
they say it is not here at this chance meeting exhausted in leaky craft. they say it is not here on this journey vacant blushing with each…
She says, assuming all of us Miami-ites as well as Anglicans, that those of us who were in church on Sunday August 23rd and not at home…
A woman holding a golden apple in her palms has crossed the boundary, uncertain yet hopeful. She waits there, glances back at stony…
Like the cruelty of clothes belted strapped buttoned down zipped up these flat pressed women ironed hard metal smoothed starched of impulse…
Memory mocked us. Thrust a long lascivious tongue through the chiselled slit of a viewing window. Beyond the mute stone wall the lone…
“So crossing the river and walking the path we came at last to Kumasi.” – Kamau Brathwaite Prologue: The merchant Did he arrive at sunset’s…
I. Sunlight slithers, insinuates itself, amid preening palms. Likewise, I goad my serpent to rifle lady’s “bird’s nest”: I don’t trifle.…
THERE’S A POEM IN MY EAR! A POETRY RESOURCE by LINDA M. DEANE Teaching & Writing for Children by Tapping into the Child In You “Artist,…
Dream at Graeme Hall by Lawrence B. Bannister My love and I elope to lands of sweet imagining where dreams have no beginning, no end, as…
(for Kamau on his 70th birthday) at seventy your voice soft drone balanced with quick guitar pick finding notes no one heard or knew. you…
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