Laboma beach at dawn

In our latest recommendation, Ancci (Ancci) compiles a list books that will make you fall in love with poetry. Featuring works by Dami Ajayi, Claudia ♥, J I D E S A L A W U, and more. 📚 Read here: rpublc.com/february-march…

guernicamag.com/author/afua-an… New poems on Guernica Magazine ! Thank you Nathalie Handal / The City and the Writer

ive never related harder to something in my life

I am living. I remember you. —Marie Howe, former Chancellor, 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry poets.org/poem/what-livi…

the salt eaters by toni cade bambara has one of my favorite book dedications. she dedicates the book to her mother: “Mama… who in 1948, having come upon me daydreaming in the middle of the kitchen floor, mopped around me.” long live the keepers of our dreams 🤍

My walk of shame is going back for a shopping cart after realizing I can't carry 15 items in my arms through the supermarket

The All African Women Poetry Festival is only 4 days away. Save the dates and pass through. Trust us, you wouldn’t want to miss it!

I fell out into the street, handsome, but compelling. It felt as if I had finally reached the full potential of my own beauty (I’d turned  sixteen the previous month). ––Robin Coste Lewis #PoemADay poets.org/poem/cavafy-co…

‘nha fala’ | dir. flora gomes (2002)

maybe i’m not the plantain you should be frying right now

—Derek Walcott

To celebrate our KUMI chapbook set, Chinụalụmọgụ Ezenwa-Ọhaeto sat down each author. Visit our blog to read this wonderful interview with Claudia Owusu.

commit the care to memory

“we are here, and we have to do something nurturing that we respect before we go. we must.” - toni morrison

ever since i was a little girl ive loved information

"And yet the water still calls me this time in the form of rain." Edem prairieschooner.unl.edu/excerpt/nkran/

Essay is out! listen-journal.com/online-journal…

solange - losing you