Because yesterday, 04/25/17, Dionne Brand and Claudia Rankine were in conversation at The Barnard Center for Research on Women (@bcrwtweets), and I know that I missed out on something great. "My ...
(April is #PoetryMonth) “What do we want from each other after we have told our stories?” asks Audre Lorde. More freedom? More justice? More love? More inclusion, better systems, an end to...
https://kinnareads.com/2017/04/18/there-are-no-honest-poems-about-dead-women-by-audre-lorde/
April is here and so is (US) National Poetry Month. Eli Tetteh launched his chapbook, Ellipses, in Accra earlier this month. I’m so taken by his poetry. I kick off #PoetryMonth here with “I...
https://kinnareads.com/2017/04/11/in-time-of-war-by-eli-tetteh/
(in celebration of 2015 (US) National Poetry Month) Clifton Gachagua is a Kenyan poet and editor. He (@CliftonGachagua) is among a group of writers whom I first met on Twitter. His collection o...
https://kinnareads.com/2015/04/29/unclaimed-by-clifton-gachagua/
(in celebration of 2015 (US) National Poetry Month) Claudia Rankine is a Jamaican poet. She has published five collections of poetry. Her latest, Citizen: An American Lyric, is high up on my list...
https://kinnareads.com/2015/04/26/from-you-are-in-the-dark-in-the-car-by-claudia-rankine/
(in celebration of 2015 (US) National Poetry Month) Jamaican Lorna Goodison is one of the best contemporary Caribbean poets. She has published twelve collections of poetry, the latest of which, O...
https://kinnareads.com/2015/04/20/some-of-my-worst-wounds-by-lorna-goodison/
(in celebration of 2015 (US) National Poetry Month) I’ve been struggling to understand how it is that I only heard about Dionne Brand this year. I take pride in knowing some things but obvio...
https://kinnareads.com/2015/04/15/since-you-by-dionne-brand/
(in celebration of 2015 (US) National Poetry Month) I’m back on track with a new-to-me-poet. Tsitsi Jaji was born in Zimbabwe. Her chapbook Carnival is included in the 2014 box-set Seven New Ge...
https://kinnareads.com/2015/04/13/dust-to-dust-by-tsitsi-jaji/
(in celebration of 2015 (US) National Poetry Month) I’ve been meaning to explore Ladan Osman’s poetry. Osman is Somali-American and her first collection of poetry, The Kitchen Dweller’s ...
The obligatory intro: ‘It’s that time of year again. Poetry is celebrated every April in the United States. The National Poetry Month was introduced in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets t...
https://kinnareads.com/2015/04/09/in-search-of-the-new-for-us-national-poetry-month/