Sillerman First Book Prize
What to say? That I'm happy and grateful to have won the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets? I am all of that and more. I'm also looking forward to the year ahead.Here is an article over at...
View ArticleTHE POET AS A MAKER
Hello there,I am (ceteris paribus, as my old professor used to say) making my way through an MA in poetry at Lancaster University. It has me thinking about what kind of poet I have imagined myself to...
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SEOUL SEARCHING
I don't drink coffee, a little architectural misdesign with the old ticker means on some days my heart can get real angry just looking at a picture of coffee beans. But tea I love.Tea ceremonies even...
View ArticleTHE WEARY, WARY AND UNWARY, ARTIST AS AN OBJECT OF PRECARITY
It is 1960 Zora Neale Hurston author and anthropologist, who at this point has published numerous articles, plays and books, received two Guggenheim Fellowships, an honorary Doctor of Letters degree...
View ArticleIN NEW YORK
“I recently moved to New York, and for my first few months here, found myself using the poetry of the city as a map to both its today and its yesterday. In my reading, I’ve been particularly struck by...
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THE CHRONOLOGIST
I've woken to a CNN focus on travel. The man says traveling for leisure can positively affect your heart health but traveling for business has shown long term effects on your circadian rhythms beyond...
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TED TALK
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do....
View ArticleTOP TEN BOTSWANA POETRY ADVOCATES IN THE LAST TWO YEARS 2014-2015
To begin with, as any list not using an agreed upon metrics etc, this list is subjective . It is also heavily weighted in favour of those whose efforts I'm aware of. Botswana has no proper networks, no...
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STILL IN MEXICO
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. ...I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two...
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THE WIDE AWAKE
It is a strange thing to meet yourself in a place far away from what is familiar. I am sitting thirty four thousand feet above the air – maybe more, maybe less, let us agree that it is from an...
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THE SLINGS AND ARROWS OF OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE
Richard Strauss writes to his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, at the beginning of their long, successful collaboration: ‘There is only one thing I would ask you: when composing your text don’t think...
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LESHIE LOVESONG presents BREATHE
I've had a wonderful start to my birthday month. Do I believe in horoscopes? What! of course not. I should point out that if I did, Leshie is a fellow leo and says this was a birthday gift to herself....
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mors veniet unicuique nostrum
He comes for us all, our old friend death. He is fed in with the first breast milk. He is a suitor most loyal to his cause, keeps his promise eternally. at 530am before a cup of coffee while waiting...
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LENTSWE
Lentswe (lints'we) is the Setswana word for voice, read differently (lints-wear) it means stone. Where was I when people were studying phonetics (though the same could be said of punctuation class)? I...
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BOYS FALLING OUT OF THE SKY
How was your meal?Great thank you. Its not a lie, they do a mean tagliatelle with poached salmon here. Here being Cafe Central in CologneGood. She stops. Excuse me are you the girl on the poster?I...
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SHE SAYS HELLO YOU FOOL
I was in Sweden last week reading at the Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra. My second time in Stockholm, and again only for one night. I had to be back in Denmark for a reading at a festival the next day and...
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LOCAL HISTORY OF EARTHQUAKES/EARTH TREMORS - what they don't teach you in...
Facebook note import - May 9, 2014 at 10:43amPublicFriendsOnly MeCustomClose FriendsBerlin, Germany AreaSee all lists...FamilywordMAPdeviantsCopenhagen, Denmark AreaLisbon, Portugal AreaJohnson,...
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AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH
A friend asked me recently, 'chapbook?''Yes''Well whats that then?'chapbook |ˈCHapˌbo͝ok|noun historicala small pamphlet containing tales, ballads, or tracts, sold by peddlers.• a small paperback...
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TO KNOW A THING
The mad king finds me everywhere. As a ten year old rifling through my father's 'collected works of Shakespeare'. In high school feeling as though learning English had been for nought - what is this...
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NOVELS OF BOTSWANA
Hi, Not much to say except heads up. The book ‘Novels of Botswana in English 1930 to 2006’ by Mary Lederer (finally) exists and do read Lauri Kubuitsile’s blog for details on the book and launch. A...
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