Lola Shoneyin
Lola Shoneyin's poetry has often been called "daring", "different". Author of "So All The Time I Was Sitting On An Egg" and "Song Of The Riverbird", Shoneyin is a graduate of Ogun State University and alumnus of the International Writers Programme at the University of Iowa. VISIT HER ONLINE.
Entries by this Author
Jolademi - Poems by Lola Shoneyin
- By Lola Shoneyin
- Published May 11, 2009
- Poetry
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Unafraid, he feels for the walls that will bring him to my door.
It has been four years since I spat him
from a lip in my womb.
Yet every night, he crawls back in...
Song of a Riverbird - Poems by Lola Shoneyin
- By Lola Shoneyin
- Published October 18, 2005
- Poetry
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I feel the sweep of eagle wings I feel the sweep of unwoken winds
The eagle has found the wailing forests
The eagle has trailed the cry of nests...