Poetry

"...Simply amazed at the wonder of your stare..."

Well worth keeping in mind...

Who is he? Why doesn't he have better clothes? Such a sad sight...or is it?

A vision of that all-consuming fire one experiences when they endure the inevitable heartbreak...

A former National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) nominee, Ndaba's poems, essays and short stories have been published in Africa and the US.

Mikel K was voted Best Atlanta Poet, the last two years in a row, by readers of Creative Loafing, Atlanta's weekly newspaper.

Mikel K is a poet and memoirist living in Mableton, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, with his photographer-artist partner Just Joan, and their three dogs, two cats, two turtles, and bird.

And then came Granny-cow...

A combination of verse and poetic prose, drawing both on Tolkien and a visit to the tropics.

Weary of endless protest...

"A poem about writing a love poem..."

"She would never ever feel foreign..."

Is change good? Does it taste the same?

April showers bring what, again?

An enviable position, actually...

"Be the catalyst for positive change..."

"...So many eyeless men, such a wild chorus of trees..."

And it's amazing how many arenas he occupies...

With Power, Ignorance equals Death.

"...No voices offer comfort now..."

Phillip Larrea is the author of <i>We the People</i> and <i>Our Patch</i>. Since 2012, his poems have appeared in over 60 journals, anthologies and magazines in the U.S., Ireland, Canada and Asia. He is the winner of the 2013 New Frontier Prize for poetry, and has been nominated twice for the 2014 Pushcart Prize.

Steve Klepetar's work has received several nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. His latest collection is <i>My Son Writes a Report on the Warsaw Ghetto</i> (Flutter Press).

And yet some of his best friends are poets...

"...to inundate a slumbering dream..."

Ndaba Sibanda is one of the most prolific poets to emerge from Zimbabwe.

Ali Znaidi lives in Redeyef, Tunisia where he teaches English.

An illustrated poetic treatise on politics and the flies of summer.

Remember that last day of high school?

Poetry to think about ...

"...consign me to heaven with your touch..."