Blackout
our laughter laughs
at us
I’m very excited to start a new collaboration with the Africa Haiku Network, a blossoming community of African haiku poets founded in 2015. This week’s poem was written by a member of its community, Ghanaian poet Nana Fredua-Agyeman. Some of Nana’s poems have been published in magazines such as Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, and Acorn and in e-zines such as simplyhaiku.com and Shamrock Haiku Journal.
Nana has three blogs: Haiku from Ghana is where he publishes his poems; ImageNations, where he writes about more mainstream poetry and reviews books; and Black Pathology for social, political, and other non-literary topics.
Poem by Nana Fredua-Agyeman http://nanafreduagyeman.blogspot.co.uk/
Picture by Nathan Anderson https://unsplash.com/@nathananderson
This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.
You have seven days from the posting of this haiku to submit your track. For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page.
Submission deadline: 28th June 2017