I have no self-control. I’m supposed to be Searching for the New but I’ve resorted to my old ways, reveling in the poems of my personal canon of poets. I like the idea of a personal canon of ...
https://kinnareads.com/2015/04/11/here-rests-by-lucille-clifton/
I’ve been feeling rather blah and achy for the past couple of days and also yearning for some poetry. When this happens, I tend to want to read from a favorite poet. So I looked up Cavafy, ...
I spent the 2013 Christmas/New Year season catching up on some of my favorite magazines and review rags. I came upon this piece on Agha Shahid Ali: The Veiled Sweets: Agha Shahid Ali’s Surp...
https://kinnareads.com/2014/02/05/vacating-an-apartment-by-agha-shahid-ali/
The American poet Nikki Giovanni, along with Kwame Alexander and a group of American teachers, was in Ghana during the last days of September 2013. The entire delegation were in town to talk ...
Image from Healthcastle.com I’ve been wanting to read a poem all day. I’m at work and it’s getting towards the end of the day. It’s mid-week and I’m tired. I looked into the Draft...
https://kinnareads.com/2013/09/04/my-dreams-my-works-must-wait-till-after-hell-by-gwendolyn-brooks/
An African-American poet for today’s Another 21 Days/21 Poems as I continue my celebration of US National Poetry Month. Enjoy this one from Rita Dove! “I have been a stranger in a strange l...
*Short Story Monday is a weekly feature run by The Book Mine Set* (Today’s short fiction was published online at Pank Magazine. You can read the story here in their September Issue). Also, my...
https://kinnareads.com/2011/10/10/this-is-all-the-orientation-that-you-gonna-get-by-john-jodzio/
The writer, and fellow blogger, Mayowa Atte recently published a very personal post on his blog, Pens with Cojones. He begins “Notes from a Visit Home” with I am homesick. This is what I re...
https://kinnareads.com/2011/08/28/should-we-have-stayed-at-home-and-thought-of-here/
The day for the last installment in the celebrations for National (US) Poetry Month has finally arrived. I thank all my readers who joined me for all or part of this journey. I really enjoyed...
https://kinnareads.com/2011/05/04/21-days21-poems-some-part-of-the-lyric-by-gregory-orr/
More poetry to celebrate National (US) Poetry Month. Today, for 21 Days/21 Poems, I feature an anthem poem. Pius Adesanmi, the Nigerian intellectual and critic, coined the term “anthem poe...
https://kinnareads.com/2011/04/23/21-days21-poems-if-we-must-die-by-claude-mckay/