Two Poems by Damilola Omotoyinbo
Damilola Omotoyinbo, Frontier XIX, is a Nigerian Creative Writer. A Fellow of the Ebedi International Writers’ Residency. Damilola got the Lolwe Classes Scholarship and was longlisted for the 2022 African Writers Awards. burnt offering i write this poem to deck the neck of my pain…
Two Poems By Croatian Poet, Jasna Gugić
Jasna Gugić was born in Vinkovci, Croatia. She writes, paints, and publishes poems in a joint collection of poems and anthology. She is a winner of many international awards for poetry and literature, translated into several world languages. Jasna lives and works in Zagreb. Disquiet…
Two Poems By Olalekan Hussein
OLALEKAN HUSSEIN, NGP VI is an emerging poet who writes from Lagos, Nigeria, where he studies in the Arabic/Islamic institution, Darul Falah. Autopsy for Dead Flowers What name do I give everything around me that got swept by a grasping air after telling God not…
One Poem By Michael H. Brownstein
Michael H. Brownstein’s latest volumes of poetry, A Slipknot to Somewhere Else (2018) and How Do We Create Love (2019) were both published by Cholla Needles Press. In addition, he has appeared in Last Stanza, Café Review, American Letters and Commentary, Skidrow Penthouse, Xavier Review,…
Two Poems by Fatihah Quadri Eniola
Fatihah Quadri Eniola writes from Nigeria. She is a member of HCAF (Hilltop creative arts foundation), Black Girls’Tales, and Nibstears Poetry Cave. Tango Drip by drip, the world trickle into a body of water. The drops echo in the tranquil air, ventilating the amused hearts…
Four Poems By Italian Poet, Gabriella Garofalo
Born in Italy some decades ago, Gabriella Garofalo fell in love with the English language at six, started writing poems (in Italian) at six, and is the author of several books. What a waste, what a crying shame Any time you dive into the waves…
Two Poems By Bisola Bada
Bisola Bada is a Business Psychologist and writer from Nigeria. She writes about the intersection of life, beauty, love, and everything in between; she writes especially for the girl child. I forgive myself in pleasing patriarchy I am a sinner but I forgive myself because…
Àdùké: A Poem By Dayò Ayílárá
Dayò Ayílárá writes from Abuja, Nigeria. His poetry focuses on nature, the beauty in pain, hope, love, and loss. To measure your smile i will take my traverse up the mountain range child of gladness, your dawning changes attire like white weather soaked in yellow…
A Poem By Thadeus Emmanuel
Thadeus Emmanuel is a writer, poet, and critic. He is a student of Economics at the Taraba State University, Jalingo, Taraba State. The Poem My Mother Used to Write Me Tell me, have you ever watched your mother, on a cold afternoon— …
One Poem By Olayioye Paul Bamidele
Olayioye Paul Bamidele is a writer and a student of mass communication. His works have appeared or forthcoming in Spillword, Lunaris, Artlounge, Afreecan, Ice Floe, Terror House, and elsewhere. Everything Names Me everything names me – grief, pentecostal babel, spittle gun, vodka speech on the…