Tag: Inkroci 49
Elif Shafak – 10 Minutes 38 seconds in this strange world
This book was a contender for the Booker Prize 2019, and IMO it should have won. The story is genius, it begins with the...
Rachel Kadish – The Weight of Ink
Two timelines. In modern-day London, Helen Watt and Aaron Levy find an important collection of letters dating back to 17th Century. This discovery’s not...
G. Gopikrishnan: ‘Illustration is an independent artwork to me.’
Each and every one of Gopikrishnan's paintings is deeply engraved in the minds of the audience. The beauty of the art is due to ...
Grace Nichols – Beauty
Beauty
is a fat black woman
walking the fields
pressing a breezed
hibiscus
to her cheek
while the sun lights up
her feet
Beauty
is a fat black woman
riding the waves
drifting in...
Gloriana Orlando – Christmas Gift
This year I want to make a Christmas crib. I haven’t made one since I was a child. I remember the joy of Christmas...
Grace Nichols – Configurations
He gives her all the configurations
of Europe.
She gives him a cloud burst of parrots.
He gives her straight blond hairs
and a white frenzy.
She gives...
Amy Woolard – Laura Palmer Graduates
I can’t love them if their hands aren’t all tore up
From something, guitar strings, kitchen knives & grease
Burns, heaving the window ACs onto their...
Amy Woolard
Amy Woolard is a legal aid attorney working on civil rights policy & legislation in Virginia. Her debut poetry collection, NECK OF THE WOODS,...
Chandramohan Sathyanathan – From the Beach to the Hotel Room
or how to become a 'feuilletonist'
I am a struggling writer, yet to bask in the glory, the glitz and the glamour of literary festivals....
Grace Nichols – Lost in Translation
(por el espíritu de poesía en Medellín, Colombia)
As if the earth had shifted axis again
I walk the streets of your city, Medellín,
a hammock of...