Today’s Featured Poem: “Wishbone” by Romeo Oriogun from The Gathering of Bastards published by @univnebpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/wishbone/

US higher ed, especially in STEM fields, would collapse without international students

Ghana, 2017. My first month in exile, never been back fully in Nigeria since then. I was so young and alive back then. The years here have taken their toll on me.

Award-winning poets Romeo Oriogun & David Nash will join me on Just to Say on Wed Dec 4th, 7pm 😍 It's free! Join us to chat all things poetry & to kick your December off with inspiration from these stars 🌟Sponsored by Jacar Press. Email [email protected] for the Zoom link😇

I believe that in the apocalypse there will still be tenderness, there will still be love, there will still be hope.

“The books we don't read are full of warnings; we will either never read them or they will arrive too late.” — Javier Marias

First day of surfing lessons.

“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”– Ursula K. Le Guin

“This is not a common romance but a romance without a finality or a real story.”