Explore Poetry
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When They Speak of Muslims - Muneera Pilgrim
Poet
Celia A Sorhaindo
B. 1968
“Ultimately though, Poetry is no more than U N I in conVERSEsensation” – Celia A Sorhaindo
Poet
Malika Booker
B. 1970
“She is a black statue in a whitewashed wooden chair, a dilapidated board house, sitting still till dusk spreads her silk petticoat across the sagging sky and bats swarm into the evening’s canvas.”
Poem
Diptych - Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Poem
Hostile Environment - Keith Jarrett
Poem
by Pippa Little
Poet
Hone Tuwhare
B. 1922 D. 2008
Gissa smile Sun, giss yr best / good mawnin' one, fresh 'n cool like - 'Sun O (2)', Hone Tuwhare
Poet
Fay Zwicky
B. 1933 D. 2017
Be precise, said wise Wei T'ai, / about the thing / but reticent / about the feeling. - from 'Poems and Things'
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Vivian Smith
B. 1933
Nothing can be useless to a poet: / that came last night in a dream. / Is it mine or am I quoting? / / Every wise man has his problems, / every idiot his theme (Vivian Smith)