After combing through over 140 submissions from emerging Nigerian poets, reading blind, these 21 poets made our longlist: Njoku Nonso Ojo Taiye Emesowum George Chidozie Chinedu Gospel Omodero David Oghenekaro Femi Lewis Michael Emma ...
SPOTLIGHT: TWENTY NIGERIAN POETS WE LOVED IN 2021
2021 was 2020 in a mask, a ghoul, an affliction-in-progress. Luckily, we had poems to guide, comfort us through the turmoil. The world’s working artists are not trying to help the world go around, but forward, Mary Oliver wrote years ago. We agr ...