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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Ash Wednesday · Chris Abani The priest smears the dark—a cross. The paste of burned palm an anointing The symbol of mythic penitence. But repentance eludes me, the turning from…

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Africa: African Poetry Is Celebrated in a Groundbreaking Publishing Project: [The Conversation Africa] For 10 years, Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawes and his friend the Nigerian writer Chris Abani have sifted through piles of manuscripts looking for Africa's new poetic talent. Since 2014, the African Poetry Book Fund has been assembling a formidable archive of writing through the New Generation African… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TP7256 #AfricanPoetry #KwameDawes #ChrisAbani #NewGenerationPoets #PoetryCommunity
For nearly 10 years, editors Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani have assembled an excellent anthology series of poetry by African writers called "New-Generation African Poets." In this exclusive Q&A, they jointly discusses this series, and the new installment, "Tisa."
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-new-generation-african-poets-tisa-editors-kwame-dawes-chris-abani/
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Exclusive Interview: "New-Generation African Poets: Tisa" Editors Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani ... .

Exclusive Interview: "New-Generation African Poets: Tisa" Editors Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani \ In which they discuss this poetry anthology.

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#7books is an almost impossible ask but here we go... will definitely think of 7 others as soon I click Publish 😍

Circle of friends #MaeveBinchy
Graceland #ChrisAbani
Gutenberg elegies #SvenBirkerts
Handmaid's tale #MargaretAtwood
Spill simmer falter wither #SaraBaume
Unspoken #GerryStembridge
We need new names #NoVioletBulawayo

#reading