Tag Archives: Kwame Dawes

These Wounds of Loss – Poems of Kwame Dawes in Memory of Rod Oram (1950-2024)

from IRIE ITES ……………………………………………………. I consider the vertigo of my days. as if I am still mourning my sister’s death, the deepest absence that will not relent. When I said […]

Touch the Pencil First – Guest Poetry Blog #27 – Introducing the Latest Contributor, Ghanaian Poet and Fiction and Non-Fiction Writer Tryphena Yeboah – Part One of Two

GENESIS I listen for a sound, a voice, a whispered word swept in by the wind to get me from here to there— where the page before me becomes more […]

The Incense of J’Adore. A Poem for Mother’s Day by the Sierra Lorean-American Poet Yalie Kamara

  THURIBLE “I’ll be loving you until the day that you are me and I am you.” — Stevie Wonder I know that homesickness is born from distance and that […]