Issue #22: For Kofi Awonoor
I remember the name from secondary school where, in preparation for the West African Examination Council (WAEC) exams, we had to read a couple of African and non-African poems (and[…]
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Three Poems by Peter Akinlabi
Night I have thought these importunate ruins painting your face brighter as something sinuous, something that is capable of rousing a broken ghost to the will of flesh […]
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Three Places
by Peter Akinlabi Oshun Who now remembers the dance from which she emerged, with dual prize of royalty and sadness? Maybe the king-dancer himself, towering above all memory, a[…]
A Dance Unspent
by Peter Akinlabi Say there was a dance unspent in you, a certain aversion to twine in the soul-shifting plunge into the spell of the transformative pond; or[…]