I attempted to write toward joy (beloved, here’s my confession), I wrote the saddest poems I have ever written. But the other truth about those poems is that there are bursts of joy all around them, and such is life – joy here and there, but also despair. – Henneh Kyereh Kwaku
I attempted to write toward joy (beloved, here’s my confession), I wrote the saddest poems I have ever written. But the other truth about those poems is that there are bursts of joy all around them, and such is life – joy here and there, but also despair. – Henneh Kyereh Kwaku
The journey through history – personal, global, and planet – through one beautifully simple poem is to me the height of the poetic craft. Your juxtaposition of pleasure and death held in a historical and present casing of exploitative labour, slavery, and environmental destruction, is palpable in the air around the poem. I suppose that it is this layering that led me into African poetry – Sarah Godsell
It’s very interesting to me that when we say poetry, we don’t say fiction or nonfiction, we just say poetry. And it feels very true to the form that the distinction is not clearly defined. – Sara Elkamel
And maybe part of the privilege of their conversations about the separation of the holistic individuality of the artist from their art was based on them not really having to think about their whiteness extensively. – Cheswayo Mphanza
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