read my poems

“A Complicated Joy & Other Poems”

Lolwe

“A

Flock

of Birds”

BODY

Bakandamiya ["This

welcome

begins the waning hour"]

poetry foundation

“Bakandamiya ["In

Jangari,

beyond sama na bakwai"]”

poetry foundation

“When I started writing the poems, it was a way to get rage out of my veins. I wrote because crying wasn’t enough, my body wanted to bleed, I wanted to see my blood and the words on pages were the closest to replicating that...”

-Saddiq Dzukogi, PRISM international