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Sep 2nd, 2010 - 10:12:09 |
Tamunobarabi
CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN WOMEN’S POETRY
Across the continent as well as in the African Diaspora, African women are well
known for their word craft. Over the centuries, African women have accomplished
difficult feats using a capacity for words that is only surpassed by their ability for physical labor.
This project on Contemporary African Women’s Poetry is looking for submission of poems written by African women from all works of life. We are looking for:
(A) poetry about contemporary African life and experience on the continent;
(B) poetry about life in the African Diaspora.
Poems may focus on any of the following: the work life, motherhood, wifehood,
children, the state and nation, war, Africa’s wealth or lack thereof, poverty, HIV-AIDS, prison, freedom, celebration, grief, happiness, border crossings, marriage, birth, the environment, loss, love, trans-nationalism, migration, gender, race, class, and any other topics or issues that interest African women
globally.
Unpublished poems are preferred. The original poems can also be in any African
language if the poet will provide a translation into English. If the original is accepted, it will be published alongside the translation. If a translator is used, the author should indicate how credit should be acknowledged.
Maximum number of submissions per person is three (3) poems. For consideration, submissions should reach us before or on December 31, 2010.
Please send submissions by email to:
Anthonia Kalu (kalu.5@osu.edu); Folabo
Ajayi-Soyinka (omofola@ku.edu); Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi (jmphd@ncsu.edu)
For submissions via snail mail,
please mail your submissions to:
Anthonia Kalu, PhDProfessor Department of African American and African Studies
486 University Hall 230 North Oval MallThe Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210-1319
Folabo Ajayi-Soyinka, PhD213 Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd.,
University of Kansas,Lawrence, KS 66045.
Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, PhD ProfessorDepartment of English
212 Tompkins HallNorth CarolinaState UniversityRaleigh, NC 27695-8105
Apr 18th, 2010 - 12:42:41 |
Tamunobarabi
Nigeria@50 Project invites poetry entries from interested Nigerian writers for an anthology to mark Nigeria’s 50th independence anniversary.
The main themes of the poems to be submitted are: independence, patriotism, nationalism, fatherland, heroes, disappointment, co-existence, ethnicity, corruptio...n, nepotism, 419, civil war, chauvinism, integration, tribalism, nationhood, military rule etc.
No limit to the number of entries to be submitted by each writer.
Entries should be sent to: Nigeria50project@yahoo.com.
Your e-mail subject should read ‘Nigeria@50 Anthology’ and the body of the e-mail should contain the following: 1. Your Name, 2. Your address, 3. Your brief bio.
Deadline for submission is 31st May, 2010.
Dec 22nd, 2009 - 09:08:18 |
Tamunobarabi
From the 12th to 19thDecember 2009 the third edition of the River State cultural carnival was organized. Poetry was show cased as a cultural tool and medium to communicate the various distinct identities of the people.
It was demonstrated that the assumed microphone presentation of poetry would not have sufficed. Africa Poets Society was part of the road procession that had several floats, colourfully adorned.
Sep 23rd, 2009 - 13:17:39 |
Tamunobarabi
All literary writers and indeed poets must seek forum where they can share their writings with members of the literary family. Such interaction encourages and shapens. I had taken the grace to attend such reading seasons and will do on 24th September, 2009 at the Garden City Literary Festival in Port Harcourt; it started today. I shall share the experience here. It will avail me the opportunity to participate in the WRITERS WORKSHOP and attend microphone season for upcoming writers.
Below is a moral booster that I got after participating at ANA evening of reading.
Sir,
My presence at ANA Poetry Evening yesterday was many things to me.One of it was that your critique of the presentation of;
1]Pronounce the sentence,
2] Okrika rising
The titles of the two poems that I read, was taken whole hearted and with a determination to do more work and reading,a thing we keep doing as journalist.You commended my work and lined it up as meeting what poetry should be.That was great for me coming on the very first time of such public appearance.
I write here to say thank you.
Thanks;
Tamunobarabi Gogo Ibulubo
My dear Poet Tamunobarabi,
Im almost certain that you must be comprehensively disappointed with me for apparently ignoring your mail to me a day after that beautiful Poetry Evenining in 2008.
I am usually in my worst elements when it has to do with emailing letters.
I can only hope that you are still writing those beautiful poems that make subtle statements without sounding denotatively philosophical or overtly potitcal. My thesis is that poetry is not a call to philosophise or to be didactic. I love your poems because they play language tricks on the reader's imagination.That is the main reason to write.
I want to believe that the current economic situation in the country would not dry up your creative canvass. Keep doing it my good friend. Just to inform you that Ive recently published an authorized biography of one my childhood intellectual heroes. The 238-page book is due for presentation inDecember.
I shall keep you posted on the details.
Many thanks Sir.
WILLIAMS WODI
Lecturer,English Department,
University of Port Harcourt
Aug 17th, 2009 - 11:26:19 |
NESTA
The second annual Nature Island Literary Festival and Book Fair took place from August 7th to 9th, 2009 at the University of the West Indies
Open Campus.
This year’s festival was expected to be as exhilarating as the
first with a number of acclaimed international,
regional and local writers and poets but the crowd was a lot less than that of last year, according to festival coordinator
This year’s festival featured Earl Lovelace from Trinidad, Colin Channer of
Jamaica who founded the Calabash International Literary Festival, Kwame Dawes of
Ghana whose book Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius remains the most authoritative study
of the lyrics of Bob Marley, famous Bajan poet and entertainer, Aja, and Adrian
Augier, a top St. Lucian poet.
Also on the cards were Dominicans Marie Elena John, who was on island with
her producer Rudy Langlais to begin discussions on her up-coming film,
Unburnable, her most famous novel now being made into film.
As part of the activities for this year, The Nature Island Literary Festival also featured works from famous Dominican novelists, Jean Rhys who is best
known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea and Phyllis Alfrey who wrote the great
novel, The Orchid House, first published in 1953. Elma Napier’s novel “Black
and White Sands” about her life in Dominica in the 1940’s was also
featured.
A special feature of the weekend’s activities was a segment called
“Finding Pat”. This part of the weekend’s activities examined the lyrics
of some of the songs of our famous calypso song writer Pat Aaron and discussed
the genesis of these lyrics and the correlation between song and poetry.
This year’s festival highlighted an exciting weekend of readings,
storytelling, music, cultural performances and local cuisine. There were
writing competitions and various workshops on poetry and short story writing and
workshops for children. All events were free to the public.
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