Looking Back and Looking Forward: A Review of Tolu’ A. Akinyemi’s The Morning Cloud is Empty
Book: The Morning Cloud is Empty (60 pages). Author: Tolu’ A. Akinyemi. Publisher: The Roaring Lion Newcastle, Ltd. The Morning Cloud is Empty is a collage of rich imageries from a past so young that it is cradled in the present. More succinctly, it very…
River Moon By Om Carter: A Lyrical Journey of Love, Healing, and Melanin Magic
River Moon by Om Carter is a hymnal of love, hope, and healing. It contains a hymn for everyone who delights in the warmth and peace of blissful romantic companionship. I experienced the sheer magic of watching whole love stories sit gorgeously in the poems…
ANXIETY AND THINGS THAT SHATTER: EXUDATES OF A TROUBLED MIND
(Anxiety and Things that Shatter, 112 pages, Samuel Adeyemi , 2019, Smashwords Edition) I had barely read halfway through the first part of this three-sectioned anthology before I messaged Samuel, “How did you put these poems out without feeling naked?” The poems in this collection…