POET OF THE WEEK: Ogunmilade Abisinuola Jewel
Ogunmilade Abisinuola Jewel is a young poet in her late teens, the first child and only girl in a family of three kids. Jewel hails from Ekiti state. La Luce, as...
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HARD JUNE by Nnamdi Amasiatu
June, the sixth month of the year A month of steady reminiscence Of the already going new year Unmasking a surge of renewed hope But alas you look blue Wearing...
MISSING SIGHT by Ololade Akinlabi
Suddenly we lost our sights Our light now our night All day long darkness is what we can see Our children are no longer imageries in our retina To exile...
SHE CALLED ME STUPID by Jerry Joel
She smiled and called me "stupid" But in the language of cupid, I knew it meant "i love you". I knew, she knew She was my sinew Keeping me together...
EARTH by Cletus Nnaemeka
She's almost everywhere, dominating in quantity velvet-textured in every ware. she's the heart of gravity. Docile, she's ever been. Never hostile, she entertains the feet of every being. She sustains...
WRR GREEN AUTHOR PRIZE (GAP) 2016 – WINNERS ANNOUNCED
The winners of the N300,000 worth Words Rhymes & Rhythm GREEN AUTHORS PRIZE 2016 (GAP 2016) for young, unpublished Nigerian poets resident in the country have been announced. The winners are Hussani Abdulrahim,...
BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2016: UNIZIK’S ‘IZUCHUKWU SAVIOUR OTUBELU WINS BPPC SEPTEMBER AFTER COMING 2ND THRICE
Izuchukwu Saviour Otubelu, a 300 level Zoology student at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, has won the September edition of the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) 2016. Otubelu had...
Press Release – 4 NIGERIAN POETS WIN N300,000 WRR GREEN AUTHOR PRIZE 2016
Four poets have emerged winners of the N300,000 worth Words Rhymes & Rhythm GREEN AUTHORS PRIZE 2016 (GAP 2o16) for young, unpublished Nigerian poets resident in the country. The winners...
UZOAMAKA OKAFOR & CHIBUIHE OBI WIN WRR – NIGERIAN TEACHERS AWARD 2016
Uzoamaka Bridget Okafor, a teacher at Mama Aziki Comprehensive Secondary School, Senchi, Z uru, Kebbi state and Chibuihe Light Obi, a teacher at Saint Maria Gorreti Catholic College, Obowo Okigwe,...
FRANK EZE WINS ERIATA ORIBHABOR POETRY PRIZE 2016
Nigerian poet, Frank Eze has won the fifth edition of Words Rhymes & Rhythm's Eriata Oribhbabor Poetry Prize (EOPP 2016) with his entry ‘Porcelain Plates’. [caption id="attachment_4264" align="alignleft" width="500"] FRANK EZE,...