POWER OF POETRY #118: MIRIAM E. MILES
My earliest memories of writing poetry are from early high school. I was distraught by the news of an 8-year-old girl who had gone missing and struggling to keep my young heart from breaking. The...
View ArticlePOWER OF POETRY #119: CHRISTOPHER W. CLARK
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what happens when narrative stops. Is this an act of creation or violence? Is it the location of a cessation or a generation? I spent hours looking through the...
View ArticlePOWER OF POETRY #120: NISHA BHAKOO
Poetry saved my life. I started writing poetry as an outlet for expressing how I felt after going through multiple traumas in a short space of time. When people show disdain for the idea of “writing...
View ArticlePOWER OF POETRY #121: MACKENZIE MOORE
I never had a revelation that completely hoodwinked me into poetry — my parents were more Bob Dylan than Anne Bradstreet, though I did try to read all of the Complete Keats and T.S. Eliot’s the Waste...
View ArticlePOWER OF POETRY #122: CATHRYN McCARTHY
With writing, I go through phases. Before the pandemic began, I’d believed I was on a roll, disgorging schlocky fiction that messed about at the boundaries of my sexuality, while challenging little. I...
View ArticlePOWER OF POETRY #123: RAY MWIHAKI
I remember getting my first book of classic poetry as a child and having my mum’s friend read me pieces every time they came around. I still have that book. It smells like old age and beautiful...
View ArticlePOWER OF POETRY #124: GOODNESS OLANREWAJU AYOOLA
Poetry is power. This cannot be over-emphasized; especially for those of us whom it has given the ability to undo words into a language of our own meaning: collectively or individually. That power...
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POWER OF POETRY #125: THE POWER & RISE OF UNDERGROUND VOICES – Mbizo CHIRASHA
I am writing a letter to dissidents farting hatred in Congo Congo, My Nagasaki pimping the state for hot bread and cheap slogans. Darfur, My Hiroshima, fermenting coup d’états in breweries of war...
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POWER OF POETRY #127: ANNE FRICKE
Poetry helps me breathe. At the risk of sounding cliché, I have been writing poetry since I could write. The styles I have emulated over the years reflect the stages of my growth and, at...
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POWER OF POETRY #128: JANE ROSENBERG LAFORGE
I never thought my poetry had an agenda until I lost a childhood friend last year. His name was Jonathan, and I had known him since elementary school. He died of cancer, the result of treatments...
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