Tichaona Chinyelu

word of mouth: poems featured on npr’s all things considered

  • Bookshelf Cento (NaPoMo #2)

    Sisters mine, beloveds those bones are not my child. I am a woman at point zero; unburnable. The wind done gone into a dark alliance forged from the devil’s pulpit. Daughters of the Sun, Women of the Moon a mercy, please. Let’s make dust tracks and leave the dilemma of this ghost to those who…

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  • It was my First Nursing Job – Belle Waring

    For the rest of the year, I will be posting bits and pieces from books I’ve read this year…even if they didn’t make it on my end of the year roundup. Today’s “bit” is Belle Waring’s It Was My First Nursing Job excerpted from Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR’s All Things Considered.  …

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  • Word of Mouth

    I just bought this book today. The first poem I read, and absolutely love, is by Kevin Young:   Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary Closed Mondays is music   is men off early from work   is waiting for the chance at the chair while the eagle claws holes in your pockets   keeping time   by the turning…

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