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Tuesday Poem Special by Dami Ajayi

26 September 2017
ON AIRPORTS II Put them in labelled boxes, anxieties that pile…
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Tuesday Poem by Tunji Olalere

19 September 2017
WEST OF MINES Sunset shuts this circuit’s door― Six bottles…
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Tuesday Poem by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún

12 September 2017
At Lewis & Clark There's a memory I have, a dark Trace of…
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Tuesday Poem by Oyindamola Shoola

29 August 2017
I have tamed myself from showing that I love you too much, and…
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Tuesday Poem by Dami Ajayi

22 August 2017
At age 9, he spat out his first sip of lager on the face of…
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Tuesday Poem by Tomiwa Ilori

15 August 2017
Àbíkú - We are here for the Stillborns The many matchsticks…
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Tuesday Poem by Timilehin Olagunju

8 August 2017
Up National, Progress   rusty metal on wheels, clanging…
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Tuesday Poem by Dele Meiji

1 August 2017
In My Mornings In my mornings I dream of a bullet through the…
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Tuesday Poem by Precious Arinze

25 July 2017
When Hunger Becomes Prayer "Hadduusan qudhaadh jireen, miyaa…
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Tuesday Poem by Dami Ajayi

11 July 2017
A SONNET ON LEAVING Sometimes leaving needs no much ado no jet…
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FICTION: The Night They Came

10 July 2017
I can not remember which came first: the noise, the gunshots,…
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Tuesday Poem by Oluwadeaduramilade Tawak

4 July 2017
1 You fall in love; the sky is bluer. Life is rosier; stimulus…
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Tuesday Poem by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo

27 June 2017
Boma Sleeps with the Boys Boma has a lived-in quality. Some…
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Tuesday Poem by Dami Ajayi

20 June 2017
AUDITIONS (For Peter) We were catching sun, what was left of…
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Dami Ajayi finds a way to fuse being a writer into his busy doctor schedule. Known as Jolly Papa (JP for short) by his friends—a sobriquet he took from a song by Rex Lawson—the poet cum doctor cum music critic makes seamless transitions between these orbits around which his life rotates.

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