Call Me Down the Rain, Part 2

This is the second part of the two part series.

Creative Thresholds

Robert Rhodes, ‘ This was written by hand so you can feel it next to your heart (3).’ Ink and acrylic on Arches paper.

This post is part 2 in the series “Call Me Down the Rain” (the first post is here).

Preface:

This series first unfolded during the first week of July, 2015, when I posted “Call Me Down the Rain” on my Facebook page as a response to another round of attacks by Boko Haram in Jos and other locations in northern Nigeria. Poet j.lewis responded with a poem, and it became a conversation, with poet amu nnadi contacting me to add his poem “we fled jos” to the sequence. Poet and artist Robert Rhodes gave us permission to use one of his paintings as an accompaniment, and we are grateful to Creative Thresholds for bringing this conversation to wider audience.

–Laura M Kaminski, July 2015

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Call Me Down The Rain

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Robert Rhodes, ‘Night map (1) so we can always find the way to one another.’ Acrylic, gouache and pencil on Arches paper.

Preface:

This series unfolded during the first week of July, 2015, when I posted “Call Me Down the Rain” on my Facebook page as a response to another round of attacks by Boko Haram in Jos and other locations in northern Nigeria. Poet j.lewis responded with a poem, and it became a conversation, with poet amu nnadi contacting me to add his poem “we fled jos” to the sequence. Poet and artist Robert Rhodes gave us permission to use one of his paintings as an accompaniment, and we are grateful to Creative Thresholds for bringing this conversation to wider audience.
–Laura M Kaminski, July 2015

Call Me Down the Rain

work-song honoring those attempting to return home to territory reclaimed from Boko Haram

I must dance a…

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“Epilepsy Diagnosis” and another

Two poems up at Via Negativa that I haven’t mentioned here yet. The most recent, published this morning, is “Epilepsy Diagnosis” — and the other, from the first week of July, is “Sailing Stones”. As always, thank you for stopping by and reading.

TALKING DRUM!!!!

Delighted to have a new poem up at Via Negativa today — here’s “Talking Drum” — enjoy! Do take time to read the translations that inspired it — they’re linked at the beginning of the poem.

Also, honored to have two poems in the current issue of Expound; thank you editor Wale Owoade and the Expound editorial team.

And last but not least, Right Hand Pointing Issue 88 is out; thank you to all the contributors.