If you are a lover of poetry (and literature) like me, and want to have a great time with fellow Nigerian literary enthusiasts in 2019, I recommended these 7 events for you...

Ours is a Landfull of Chameleons, Tigers and Hawks; a wild community of Vipers, and dicers who build us castles of snakes, with cancerous legacies, a trail to blaze by our generation. and as a people, ants, and sheep’s who shadows in red silence and eat pains as honeycomb. Ours is...

When John Greenleaf Whittier (then already an established poet) first got a hold of Walt Whitman’s poems, he dismissed them as “loose, lurid, and impious,” and summarily threw his gift-copy of Leaves of Grass, Whitman’s book, into the fireplace. Some other critics also lampooned Whitman at the time, describing his...