Suppose my body were an elegy of broken dreams
and I held the ocean within my bone marrow and could leap on the back of an unbridled gust of...
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Tag: poetry
February 18th 2010
The smile on my brother’s face ran away with his hope & he is searching through the rising...
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End 2022 Note: Itanile’s Journey Through Trenches, The Longlist or Award Nominees and more
To be honest with you, this is not one of the parts of editorial work that’s fun. Putting it...
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The Spirit of St. Louis by Alex Nderitu
The melanin queen was perched on a bar stool, Checking me out from head to shoe. Her eyes were...
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Our World is Awfully Beautiful.
These are the times We are in dark times, my love. The morning still sweet in the awful sepia sky...
Read MoreA Conversation with Samuel A. Adeyemi: An Interview
I started writing poetry, intentionally, in 2017. Studying literature in secondary school was mostly the catalyst. I fell in love after reading the poets we were taught
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The River and her Streams, Onyedikachi Shaquille Johnson
The songwriter imaginedstanding amid cellists,before an auditorium of compatriots who have comea...
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THE PORTRAIT OF A DEFILED MOON
you become a bomb of rage ready to explode on the shadow that touches the tits of your...
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Re: Tell Me That You Love Me , Seun Lari-Williams
Kabiru, I will tell you that I love you when the sun comes out at night. Or when it’s break of...
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An Interview With 2021 Brunel International African Poetry Prize Winner, Othuke Umukoro
Biography: Othuke Umukoro—Nigerian poet, playwright & educator—is the winner of the 2018 I...
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The Shallow Tales Review Releases Issue 33
The Shallow Tales Review literary magazine, Nigerian-based electronic literary magazine announces...
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