Poetry is innate in all men, but good poetry with class is achieved through hard work and encouragement/inspiration. Writing poetry enriches my being and makes me express my world in the simplest waypoetry! I am a true nature person that listens to the teachings of our time and also encouraged by what I see, and the best way to express myself is simply through writing, mostly through poetry. Please read with full concentration and think out of the box to enable yourself to enjoy my work to...

100 days... 100 days that should not have been... 100 days the world could have stopped. But did not.For 100 days, Juliane Okot Bitek recorded the lingering nightmare of the Rwandan genocide in a poem—each poem recalling the senseless loss of life and of innocence. Okot Bitek draws on her own family's experience of displacement under the regime of Idi Amin, pulling in fragments of the poetic traditions she encounters along the way: the Ugandan Acholi oral tradition of her father—th...

Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets2018 Arab American Book Award Winner, Poetry"A taut debut collection of heartfelt poems."—Publishers WeeklyIn her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, “The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years by height, all given the birth date January 1.” What follows is a deeply personal collection of po...

Imagine Africa and its theme of "Revolution" is introduced by Georges Lory who opens the collection with his essay, "Poets to your quills, Africa is taking off". Through a collage of poems, essays, fiction, and visual art, Imagine Africa gives us a glimpse of a kaleidoscopic contemporary Africa.

This is a story for Children about a pony who wants a beautiful gift for Christmas, but he is not sure what that gift is. He knows that he will figure it out in time. When he goes into his stable, he sees a white cat that is busy decorating a Christmas tree for him. The white cat asks Echo, the pony, if he can spend the night with him in his stable, and Echo agrees to it. The next day, on Christmas day, they both wake up, and they celebrate Christmas together.

Written as a tribute to family, place, and bodily awareness, Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s poems speak of love, war, violence, language, immigration, and exile. From a baby girl’s penchant for her parents’ keys to a warrior’s hunt for words, Wa Ngugi’s poems move back and forth between the personal and the political. In the frozen tundra of Wisconsin, the biting winds of Boston, and the heat of Nairobi, Wa Ngugi is always mindful of his physical experience of the environment. Ultimately it is among mu...

The collection of poems is an intriguing reflection of the sometimes torturous evolution of inner self which so many South Africans face as they struggle to find who they are in a multicultural society that espouses the values of traditional culture while reaching for the promise of a global community. Thus the blend of Xhosa and English as Ntsiki strives to merge her modern views with cultural roots. She feels strongly the need to reclaim her culture and language and blend them within the...

A step into a different direction from the first Dragonflies series, Nicholas Brown puts into poetry and anecdotal prose poems how he felt at some of his worst emotional moments.People will be shocked, others will enjoy, but all shall respect the brutal honesty within this work, especially the poem No Love.Not many people open up when they're feeling some type of way. In Dragonflies at War Vol. II, you're guaranteed to receive exactly what was on his mind.

"Don't Beat Your Children Or They'll Turn Out Like Me," is a book of poems, Haikus, jokes and random thoughts that has captured Harlem living completely and not once did the author loose street creditability. The author (BLUE) has taken the ugliness of the ghetto and brought humor and beauty to the everyday experiences on the streets. There is a new movement that needs to be acknowledged and his poetry is a big part of that...

'Myriads' is an African inspired collection of poems that span across several topics including slavery, honour, equity, bribery, and love.

THE ENSLAVEMENT AND DIASPORA OF THE AFRICAN PEOPLE HAVE MANIFESTED LIGHT ON OUR PAINS, STRUGGLES, SUFFERINGS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS. WE WERE BROUGHT AS SLAVES, STRIPPED OF AND STRIPPED FROM EVERYTHING WE KNEW. THE RESILIENCE OF OUR PEOPLE HAS EMPOWERED US TO OVERCOME THE HARDSHIPS OF OUR PAST. IN SPITE OF OUR CONTINOUS OPPRESSION, WE DIDNT BUCKLE UNDER BUT, ROSE WITH DIGNITY AND SELF-REALIZATION TO CHANGE. TO CHANGE NOT THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN BUT, THE WAY WE THINK, ACT AND THEREBY EMPOWER THE ...

This first US publication of Erez Bitton, one of Israel's most celebrated poets, recalls the fate of Moroccan Jewish culture with poems both evocative and pure. Considered the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli, a major tradition in the history of Hebrew poetry, Bitton's bilingual collection dramatically expands the scope of biographical experience and memory, ultimately resurrecting a vanishing world and culture.Preliminary Background WordsMy mother my...