For The Victims Of Nyaya Bomb Blast

        The Names - Billy Collins Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night. A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze, And when I saw the silver glaze on the windows, I started with A, with Ameh, as it happened, Then Bello and Celestine, Damashi and Exra, names falling into place As droplets fell through the dark. Names printed on the ceiling of the night. Names slipping around a watery bend....

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THIRD AND FINAL DAY OF THE WORKSHOP

As early as 8am participants began to gather at the Presidential Hotel the venue for the performance for a brief rehearsals of the poem titled “Reading in the Creeks” written and arranged by them the previous day. The performance proper came on during the “Meet The Author, JP Clark” session. Dagga Tolar was invited on stage to introduce the performance. He appreciated the Goethe-Institut for all of the logistics,...

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DAY TWO OF THE WORKSHOP

The second day of the workshop recorded a turn-out of participants who were ready to take on the stage. But first a writer from Republic of Benin, Mr. Flourent Couao Zotti, who informed that he had authored 15 books, and that prose was his specialty, was granted audience by the participants. He spoke at length on poetry and spontaneity, and the fact that feelings...

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Day One of the Workshop

Innocent-Maclean Epere was the first of the participants to arrive at the venue, joined later by Egbe Nnamdi, and Reuben Prince…. Others trickled in, and the workshop kicked off as scheduled, with introductory remarks centering on the workshop having been made possible by Goethe-Institut Nigeria as part of their intervention in the ongoing Port Harcourt World...

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