The Contemporary Thoughts

Introduction In 1980s Nigeria, Chris Abani’s anti-government writings landed him in prison, where he was brutally tortured. Charles Mudede writes...

In the spring of 1963, Lorenzo Thomas read some of his early poems at the Le Metro coffeehouse on New...

I was sitting on the plane on the way to Paris, and the attendants were handing out customs forms and...

How globe-trotting poetries may not beat scrawls in a cave. Introduction When I was reading an anthology of contemporary European...

What else but a poem in a state of tension. A crack in a poem. Lines seen through doorways, sidewalks,...

Introduction Outside of China, critics often compare dissident poet Huang Xiang to Walt Whitman. But in his homeland, nobody reads...

“In vain your bangles cast Charmed circles at my feet; I am Àbíkú, calling for the first And the repeated...

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves, says ‘Henry David Thoureau’. In this collection, entitled, Self-Discovery,...