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…
One Poem By Fatima Abdullahi
Fatima Abdullahi is a Nigerian-born writer and poet, though she once hated the genre. She’d thought it was pretentious and was trying too hard. Then she joined Robert Frost on his road not taken, and her whole world changed. Black Boy It is in me…
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…
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…
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…
One Poem By Adamu Yahuza
Adamu Yahuza is a budding poet and spoken word artist from Kwara State, Nigeria. His poem, ‘Catalogue of memories’ has been nominated by Oneblackboylikethat Review for 2023 best of the Net Prize. A stranger once knocked on our door & went with my voice watch…
A Poem by Fatihah Quadri
Fatihah Quadri is a Nigerian Poet, creative writer, and literary critic. She is a member of the Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation. She writes from Ibadan, Oyo State. Dear heathen I would have loved to speak to God in your name, You were overdone That your…
One Poem By Meshack Ifada
Meshack Ifada is eighteen years. He is an aspiring poet from Nigeria with works in Brittle Paper, Spill Words Press, Jalada, and elsewhere. Principle of Water & it is true; the fruitlessness of washing the knees. I know what i please to not be deliverance….