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Got a poem in the new issue of
@PoetryFound
, buoyed by one of my favourite paintings (Anguish by August Friedrich Schenck)
Read here:
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"wife material" is not a compliment. it is misogyny woven into language, patriarchy's way of congratulating you for being compliant.
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Unfriendly reminder that homophobia is not a personal opinion. People are dying because of your bullshit.
You simply can't "disagree" with a person's sexuality.
Also, fuck you...
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Drake is getting cooked in multiple languages... sheesh
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some of you perform intelligence, rather than possess it.
you read good books, but because you resist the gestational period of intelligence, want so bad to quote the latest thing you've read, want to be an authority by all means, you jump the gun.
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If foreign poets can cram their books with names of plants & foods that I have to look up on Google, please don't explain the meaning of suya, ewa goyin, or garri in your poems either. I dey beg you... don't italicise either.
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Destigmatizing mental illness: I'm Pamilerin, a poet, teacher, author, Schizophrenic; survived 2 suicide attempts; 3 long hospitalizations in 2016, 2017, 2018. I use Olanzapine & Sertraline. & though now my liver's begun to act up, I have never run out of beauty & awe!
Destigmatizing mental illness: I'm Shira, a poet & teacher & daughter & sister & artist, & I have Bipolar; I've survived 4 episodes which included paranoia, delusions, hallucinations & intense weight loss. I take Lithium & use therapy. I'm happier today than I've ever been.
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They picked Akanni up one morning
Beat him soft like clay
And stuffed him down the belly
Of a waiting jeep.
- Niyi Osundare
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Glad to announce I have a chapbook (Gospels of Depression) coming out with
@Nigerianpoets
. Thoroughly thrilled! 😊
@yorubasnflwr
@wallsofibadan
@Michael_Akuchie
@ehoranpoet
@asangelwassayin
@K_tops
@kormbat
@oyinoludipe
@oyindashoola
@Wale_Ayinla
@
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Dear friends, delighted to announce my MicroChap, CORDIAL WITH DISILLUSIONMENT, will be released by
@GhostCityPress
on June 9, as part of the 2021 Summer Series. Looking forward to sharing these poems with you.
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It's my birthday, & all that rings in my head is this:
"let ruin end here
let him find honey
where there was once a slaughter"
- Danez Smith, Little Prayer.
🥳❤🥳💚🥳🤍
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Been busy all day & just caught wind of this. I've got four poems in
@Lolwe_
. Grateful to the editors for the gentleness with which they handled my work. 🤗🤍
Read all here:
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I want the line-break to tell me something about how a poem feels: where a speaker butts up against silence.
- Dana Levin
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everyday / something has tried to kill me / and has failed (Lucille Clifton)
Happy birthday to me! 🙂
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Delighted to announce that I'll be curating a weekly Poetry Column that features Nigerian poets with
@PoetryColumnNnd
(do follow the page), the poetry arm of
@NigNewsDirect
. Each featured poet will be paid N5,000 for one poem. Building our community, one brick at a time... 🤍
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Me, bookmarking every "submit" tweet knowing fully well I have no poems on ground to submit:
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Delightful news, etc...
Grateful to the editors 🤍
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want to know a man's true morality? tell him there's no god.
most of y'all are "good" cause you fear god. total bullshit.
goodness that comes from fear of punishment is eye service.
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i actually read Nigerian poets because i love you all, & that's how i discovered this mess. i don't care who you are. do not steal from me.
grateful to
@axisweb
& their team for defending my work against the plagiarism of
@ojo_poems
.
statement here:
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mental illnesses are always seen as the fault of the victims.
it's either you're not spiritual enough, you're too weak-minded, or you're behaving too much like the "whites".
folks will always find a way to blame you for your illness.
it's sickening. & demoralizing.
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Actor Francis Odega (Gerarahere guy) beats wife, threatens to stab wife, kicks out wife & daughter. There is video evidence.
Nigerians:
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Wrote this tiny poem some days back, dear to me. The whole thing is up on
@myshuzia
Dive in! ✌🏿🤍
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Guyssssssss, I've got four poems here: a Duplex (
@jerichobrown
-inspired), Golden Shovel, & two other poems.
Thankful to
@bardsbesidebars
for his attention to my work. Do enjoy! 🥰
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Isn't it funny? How the cold numbs everything but grief.
If we could light up the room with pain,
We'd be such a glorious fire.
- Ada Limón (
@adalimon
)
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"everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed"
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All mine, foolishness, yellow as dahlias, taking advantage of my lack — sprouting everywhere, even the eyes.
- Pamilerin Jacob, THEŌRÍA [ΘΕΩΡÍΑ]
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April is leaking again like a child
nicked in the knees by concrete.
- Pamilerin Jacob
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Right, left, Nigerian poets keep racking up Pushcart noms, Best of the Net noms. Every nomination, every major competition, every prize, one Nigerian name almost often pops up.
Talk about renaissance.
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Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
- Mary Oliver
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peeling a stone with a knife
is how I envision the quest for truth
- Pamilerin Jacob, Edging.
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I am too poor for literature these days.
...only the rich write poetry now.
I am trying to afford my life. I have no time to feel,
to pull out the intangible thing...
My misery, my art
won’t feed me.
-
@samuelpoetry
in
@Lolwe_
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got into AA to help with the drinking. wish me luck.
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why would you plagiarize my poem just published in 2024. barely two months in. what in the world...
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Oh Theoria... 😅
Here it is:
@pamilerinjacob
you have a poem (I read it a month ago and it was timely) titled Theo(can't remember the ending😭). Where can I re-read? It was a screenshot.
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Excited to be serving as a mentor for this year’s
@sprinnglm
Writing Fellowship.
Visit to learn more and apply by April 15!
#2024SprinngMentor
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received the best birthday gift of my life last year when dad, on his deathbed, surprised me with a cake. imagine taking care of this man at the hospital & he still found a way to tell someone to bring me a gift. no greater example for me.
rest well, dad.
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I've got 4 new poems in the Geographies Project by
@IcefloeP
. Thankful to
@MJSEyesOpened
&
@frede_kenter
for reaching out weeks ago. Go read 'em all... 🥺💚
@ErnestOgunyemi
@K_tops
@Paht_Rihk
@kwaku_kyereh
@jakkybeefive
@Michael_Akuchie
@adedayo_agarau
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We should not have to see so many corpses in one lifetime. Nigeria is a war zone.
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I have a poem in EOPP 2020's top 20 poems. And man, all the poems in the anthology are awesome.
@bn_yusuff
,
@ShedrackAkanbi
are in there too!
(Congrats to the winners!!!
@Nezi_yvonne
,
@OshoTundepoet
, Ayokunle 🥳🤍)
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and God said “love Your enemy,” and i obeyed him and loved myself.
- Khalil Gibran
First, you conquer the demons that keep you awake at night. Next, you start to conquer your self.
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@WaterAbeni
Ikr... silly atheists, always at bus stops forcing their wretched science upon us believers. One time an atheist told me, "without Carl Sagan, you are nothing..." 😔
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To imitate the gestures of the avant-garde, to write frantic prose, does not guarantee that one has the insight of the avant-garde.
- Teju Cole, Eight Letters to a Young Writer
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"the most
common lie in the world is a smile:
mouth full of dust, I too
know what it means to hold a secret
like a bomb, fearful of spilling death
into another’s palms."
- Pamilerin Jacob, Tough Love.
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My micro-chap, "Cordial with Disillusionment," will be published with
@GhostCityPress
in the 2021 Summer Series.
Heartwarming! 🤍
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Something keeps trying, but I'm not killed yet.
- Jericho Brown
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Dear friends,
I've got a poem, January Nocturne, in
@LPeppercoast
, alongside amazing poets
@kwaku_kyereh
&
@ogunyemiernest
.
Do enjoy! 🤍
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so intriguing the growth i often witness in poets between the first rejection & eventual acceptance in the Poetry Column.
most of those who get published have a catalog of rejections testifying to their tenacity to keep growing as poets.
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the greatest inheritance my dad left me is Jesus Christ.
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🙃
Post a random picture of you in the Month of October 😍
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Life has been tumultuous. But I've got poems forthcoming
@Lolwe_
@thedeadlands
@maskslitmag
@ScrawlPlace
. Grateful to the editors, really. 🤍
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Quite a poem, this one.
Do read, beloved... 🤍
the second Voices for Change in Nigeria is here! "It Is Impossible to Live" by
@pamilerinjacob
——
"When Jimoh died, the sky was perfect. I consider
this cruelty. When Ikechukwu died, the sun did not flicker.
I consider this cruelty."
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Got three poems featured in
@africanwriters_
. Added my tiny voice to
#freemubarakbala
, wrote about our bodies as targets, & of course love's tenderness. ❤
@adedayo_agarau
@dondekojo
@SonOfOlokun
@PressAnimal
@KunleAdebajo
@Michael_Akuchie
@ErnestOgunyemi
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Writing is so weird. I have been thinking, for the past hour, about a comma in a sentence I wrote two weeks ago...
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Years ago in the hospital, I read these three poets for the first time. Glad that they continue to put wonderful poems out into the world. Also, thankful to
@FasasiDiipo
for these books! 🤍
@JollyPaps1
@imanweze
@SonOfOlokun
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Read poetry textbooks too. Okay?
It's called a craft for a reason.
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love reading books from dad's library cause then i get to see sentences that caught his eye, all underlined — his love seeping through time in fragments, enveloping me.
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Text of the poem I read tonight during the space by
@AbenaMaryann
&
@Dz_bene
:
"Anurika,
I too, have been exorcised of loneliness since
stumbling upon your face. I carry your name
with me into every room, and rub it against
every surface until it gleams."
- Pamilerin Jacob
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Grateful to the editors at
@wrongdoingmag
for accepting my poem, ILISHAN-REMO NOCTURNE. It'll be published in their Fall 2022 issue. 🤍
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still here. fighting the good fight. survived more attempts since then. and more hospitalizations hehe...
Destigmatizing mental illness: I'm Pamilerin, a poet, teacher, author, Schizophrenic; survived 2 suicide attempts; 3 long hospitalizations in 2016, 2017, 2018. I use Olanzapine & Sertraline. & though now my liver's begun to act up, I have never run out of beauty & awe!
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@GideonE52756732
Unnecessary, really. If we can look up tater tots, they can look up puff puff. If we can look up cornbread, they should also look up Agege bread.
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Use the metaphor like that. Use the simile like that. Let them look it up on Google the way we do... 😘
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As a carpenter, Jesus
made chairs, tables,
shelves—investigating, all
the while, the
role of nails
in forgiveness.
#HappyEaster
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Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
"Look!" and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.
- Mary Oliver
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Maybe the centipede in the cellar
knows with its many disgusting legs
why I am sad. No one else does.
I want to be a sweetheart in every moment...
-
@chenchenwrites
, Elegy For My Sadness.
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I fail miserably
at my most beloved habit. Suddenly,
a stone is a stone. A cloud is a cloud. &
the water in my cup possesses
no ancient history.
- Pamilerin Jacob, Meditation on Writing.
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Imagine if we had poetry prizes in each state, each university. How vast, multifaceted the progress would be.
Sharing these thoughts here cause I know there are people out there who will perhaps, one day, help contribute to their fruition.
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poetry is God's mighty instrument for my peace & sanity. i put my blood in this stuff. my demons are not your pay cheque. do the work or do nothing at all.
ire o.
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If there is a seed
in your palm,
you must bend to the soil
and plant it.
- Nadra Mabrouk, The Condition
#AfricanPoets2024
#Day3
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Grateful to the editors of
@KissingDPoetry
for including my poem in Issue 43 of the journal.
Read here:
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Got this lovely poem about my dog who died last year in
@LitQuarterly
alongside
@Wale_Ayinla
& other spectacular voices... 🤍🤍
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