the last time hunger threatened to kill me, my mother cut her flesh & fed me. & when my oesophagus was like a desert that my saliva wasn’t suffice to wage war against This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/motherhood-means-immolation-to-my-mother-a-poem-by-moshkur-ajikobi/

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My tears are this poem rolling into gratitude: carving out strong boys who never cries nor succumbed to life’s protracted misfortune when their father had gone to meet with Eve’s daughter… This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/threnody-your-death-gulp-me-empty/

The strength of black women of all walks of life often go unnoticed. They aren’t famous and don’t have the power, money or influence to get the recognition they deserve. Yet so much can be said about these everyday ‘sheroes’… This episode is also available as a blog post: Read here https://poemifypublishers.com/why-a-strong-black-woman-a-poem-by-hillary-nicole-van-rooi/

The road home is long and it runs and runs across busy towns and lonely villages, through express routes, flyovers and white chalk lines drawn on asphalt, through bumps and gallops and potholes the size of a small pond and through smoke from the exhaust of heavy-duty lorries with witty slogans painted on their bodies. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/the-road-home-a-poem-by-abdulsalam-adeiza-sadiq/