In this episode of our ‘Poetry Reading series’, we feature two amazing young African poets:
-Henneh Kyereh Kwaku, reading his poem “Someday I'll love Kwaku Kyereh” first published by Olongo Africa
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-Pamilerin Jacob, reading his poem “LACY”, published in his MicroChap Cordial With Disillusionment (Ghost City Press, 2021).
Pamilerin Jacob is a Nigerian poet & editor whose poems have appeared in Barren Magazine, Agbowó, Poetry Potion, Ghost City Press, Feed Lit Mag, Neologism, IceFloe Press & elsewhere. He was the second runner-up for Sevhage Poetry Prize 2019, co-winner PIN Food Poetry Contest 2018. A Best of the Net nominee, his poems also appear in Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poets, 2020. He was a mentor in the SprinNG Fellowship 2018, 2019, & 2020. Author of the chapbook, Gospels of Depression, & Curator of PoetryColumn-NND, a poetry column in Nigerian NewsDirect, a national newspaper; reach him on Twitter @pamilerinjacob.
Henneh Kyereh Kwaku is a poet from Gonasua in the Bono Region of Ghana. He’s the author of Revolution of the Scavengers, selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the APBF New Generation African Poets Chapbook Series. He studied Public Health at the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana. His poems/essays/hybrids have appeared in Agbowó, Tupelo Quarterly, Tampered Press, Poetry Society of America, Praxis Magazine, IceFloe Press, Random Photo Journal, Lunaris Review, CGWS, New South Journal & elsewhere. Find him on Twitter/IG: @kwaku_kyereh.
