BANDAIDS AND BLOOD
In Bandaids and Blood, Ryan List speaks with God about illness, grief, Anna's death, doubt and the realization that the love he kept searching for had been with him all along.
MY GRANDFATHER
In My Grandfather, Gerald Obote recalls a childhood fowling expedition that ends in devastating loss, using crows, silence and memory to portray the death of a beloved grandfather.
TO
In To, Atuhwera Daphine traces the human journey through friendship, education, love, family, wealth, poverty and suffering before confronting the one destination every life eventually shares.
THE BOMB
In The Bomb, Omadang Yowasi turns a conversation with his deceased father into a striking meditation on memory, ancestry and inheritance. Through the haunting image of bones as bombs, the poem asks what remains of a parent within the child after death.
