French and Côte d´Ivoire: Veronique Tadjo’s novella, As the Crow Flies, led me to her poetry book: Red Earth, first published in French as Laterite. The novella opens and ends like a long poem, is a love-betrayal and migration story, and at the heart of it are personal urban life affairs. But the search […]
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Meet Prartho Sereno, the fantastic poet
Coming closer to Thanksgiving makes me think of Prartho Sereno’s imaginative and fascinating poetry book: Causing a Stir: The secret lives and loves of kitchen utensils. Food is involved, you see. And love. The wonderful poems are complemented by paintings, also done by Prartho. What I love about these poems is Prartho’s child-like grace, angelic and […]
The Needle Poems of Jennifer Grotz
I’m excited about introducing Jennifer Grotz, who is coming to read as part of The Raymond Carver Reading Series. A year ago I discovered her poetry book, Cusp, accidentally really, when I was in Bird Library randomly looking for interesting poetry books. I removed the book from the shelf and read a few poems and […]
Cape Verde with Corsino Fortes
One of the finest islands with great music–think Cesaria Evora–beautiful deep blue waters, and good food; go national and get the cachupa–hard corn mixed with dry beans topped with two sausages and fried eggs. That’s what you can have for breakfast and/or lunch. An orange on the side. Some vegetables. And oh, the tuna is […]
Africa without Madagascar is like soup without salt
When I was in primary school, our geography teacher made us draw on the blackboard maps of various regions. By the time I was in primary seven, I could draw the Rhineland, curves of the Tennessee valley authority, Africa, East Africa, North America, South America, Australia and so on. Europe was hard but we gave […]
Meet Beverley Nambozo the poet
It’s a pleasure to have a conversation with one of my favorite poets, Beverley Nambozo. I like what she does with eroticism in her poems. She certainly takes it to an art form. It’s rare to come across good erotic poetry.
One long poem of Blaise Cendrars
Had a good afternoon with Blaise Cendrars, one of the finest Swiss poets in my opinion. Reading him is like finding the right rhythm to a song. I enjoy his long poems especially. I think he’s one of the few poets whose very long poems rock and you hardly feel their length on your time. […]
Where are the cherry blossoms?
One of the things I’ve realized here is talking about the weather all the time. Weather governs our lives, our behavior and our language. For the most part, March has been too long, cold and unpleasant. It’s supposed to be Spring but in actuality we are having an extension of winter. I’ve moved from shock, […]
Evening
At 5 p.m. the sun’s shadow crosses half of the veranda That’s when women begin to prepare dinner And the boy boils water for the cows’ teats They love a teat massage with warm water Before one can start pulling hard for the milk
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The vultures
I don’t usually try to explain my poetry but here I’ll say this poem has nothing to do with vultures but has a lot to do with vultures.
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