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In poetry, even if it’s not the narrative type, you find that narrate ambience, characterization and setting even though you are not telling a story. So, that is what I borrow from poetry, that sense of translating the unspeakable.

— Jumoke Verissimo

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The world is afraid to read poetry, but the world is full of poetry.

I come from a place where family speaks of love and sacrifice.

Don’t we know it already, don’t we? To age in this land, is to arrive in a grave?

Poetry is something that I enjoy doing. I do other forms of writing, and it captures the essence of several things. It is my way of understanding the world and how it works.

We know fear. We are not afraid. Our concern is that this power we carry is nothing before those who do not know what it means to be strong.

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