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From Afrocentrism to Afropolitanism: Subcultural Journeys in Minna Salami’s Poetry

By Dzekashu MacViban - Leave a Comment - 2 September 2014 - 6 minutes of reading

Dzekashu MacViban Cache by Minna Salami: Weedmark Publishing; 2013, ISBN-13: 978-1-291-31161-7. When Nigerian-Swedish writer Minna Salami released a slim collection of poetry on Valentine’s day last year, I immediately recalled that I’d read her poems sometime in 2010 on the erstwhile Palapala Magazine, and the impression the poems left on me then, was of a […]

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[Poetry] Languaje by Jack Little

By admin - Leave a Comment - 1 June 2014 - 1 minute of reading

Llenar blank leaves of hojas, wrap them tight in silent ayches, yolling ells. [olas de tears] un ojo wrinkles, the other empalagoso [miss you, querida] raquítico armchair, we slide soñolientamente [I can’t say your name] into tomorrow through archos, sloshways, canal boats miel, jarabe [with scratching “jah”] steal me across the river again

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Three Poems by Minna Salami

By admin - Leave a Comment - 1 June 2014 - 3 minutes of reading

Originally published in an anthology titled ‘IF YU HIE SE A DE PRIZIN’’ (Antoloji of puem-dem fo Naija) edited by Edwin Eriata Oribhabor “Ghost” Man Anoda pesin “ghost” don enta mai bodi A no nou im nem Bot a nou se na man Fo di we a fil di “burn” fo front of mai leg

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From Scions of the Malcontent to Men of Contentment

By admin - 1 Comment - 14 October 2013 - 22 minutes of reading

Wirndzerem G. Barfee A work of art is, and can be, read from multiple perspectives. One of the most engaging perspectives to read Macviban’s collection, Scions of the Malcontent (SOTM), is by collapsing the opposition between the verbal and graphic articulations, and as such creating a complimentary dynamics that participates in the

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Two Poems by Nfor E. Njinyoh

By Nfor E. Njinyoh - 5 Comments - 14 October 2013 - 1 minute of reading

Design Error I am a broken toy Shipped late From the factory and have never Caught up with the toys from My batch. Like a limping duck, I lag behind, trying to catch an eye. On sale At a give-away price On the back shelf Unwanted, even by the most desperate. Yet,

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Three Poems by Jumoke Verissimo

By admin - 2 Comments - 26 April 2013 - 3 minutes of reading

Voluntary Exile You who ate the light of the sun at dusk the age of your fears is in my head I have seen the consent in your eyes ditch thoughts have formed, water makes a skin on your malar. But your lover is not a goddess, Yet she melts you into a wraith, like

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Three Poems by Margarita Ríos-Farjat

By admin - 1 Comment - 30 November 2012 - 6 minutes of reading

Yearning Translated by Karenina Osnaya A desert That today is still called Tacubaya. Nothing remains José Emilio Pacheco It is said by José Emilio that in Tacubaya nothing remained. Octavio Paz always longed for the Mixcoac that left away. Mixcoac received me, as the branch of the oak to the bird that

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Four Poems by Ingrid Valencia

By admin - Leave a Comment - 30 November 2012 - 2 minutes of reading

Translated by Jack Little Intact Certainty is the skin reflected in the water They are the hands that sail in the deep until one denies the horizon sitting on the white stone of old age There is still time to nominate under the mountain the light that leaks in the powder Trees shooting begin

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Three Poems by Fernando Bonilla

By admin - Leave a Comment - 30 November 2012 - 7 minutes of reading

Images of Power Images of power Are banging at my door. I woke up smelling The bitterness of the old Puppeteer getting tired, getting angry At me and the rest of the world. They are resented, they despite us, They fear us and yet, They devour us alive. Images of power are all I

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Bubbles by Camila de la Parra

By admin - 4 Comments - 30 November 2012 - 3 minutes of reading

I All my friends have grown up inside bubbles. They float a few centimeters above the soil And swear there’s dirt between their toes. It’s all lies of course, I have seen how their momma’s servants Clean under their nails when they sleep. I’ve been inside the bubbles, They’re nice and warm and fully

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From Afrocentrism to Afropolitanism: Subcultural Journeys in Minna Salami’s Poetry

[Poetry] Languaje by Jack Little

Three Poems by Minna Salami

From Scions of the Malcontent to Men of Contentment

Two Poems by Nfor E. Njinyoh

Three Poems by Jumoke Verissimo

Three Poems by Margarita Ríos-Farjat

Four Poems by Ingrid Valencia

Three Poems by Fernando Bonilla

Bubbles by Camila de la Parra

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