Felix Eshiet

my poem "the anatomy of rust" is live on @thestripesmag. stripesliterarymagazine.weebly.com/felixeshiet.ht…

before you edit that poem, that story, please, never forget to keep a copy

spoke to this mutual & despite telling him we're not yet open for donations, he's made the first public donation to the work we have forthcoming on @ekondoreview. says it's too much of a novel initiative not to donate to. we're spotlighting literature across the akwa-cross region

grief is an extreme sport

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dear friends, i've been endorsed by the Arts Council England for the Global Talent Visa, but I am unable to do this all on my own. i will need all the help i can get 😅 Thank you 🤍 gofundme.com/f/support-pami…

"i miss her toes as very much as i miss her & flesh, she has more of it as she ages & i have more of it as i age, more to lick & not lick as we like, it's as if there's a menu & she is the menu & everything is allowed, minus forever" bob hicok on @onlypoemsmag

speak to a child on the street. have a word with an elderly in the village. reason with a cyclist. you'll understand better (that's if it hasn't gotten to you). nigerians have never ever been this hungry. it's unheard of

every moment i think about how rotten our nation is becoming—the everyday killings & the backbreaking inflation—a line from @michael_imossan's "deborah" floods my mind: "i am sorry i can do nothing. i have nothing to gift you except poems. what use is my poetry if it cannot…

will it ever end?

there is a crack in everything. that's how the light gets in—leonard cohen

"we are [can be] our own gods— full of instincts & contradictions, we build temples in the bodies we burn in because a dog is not a stray god, sorry, i meant to say; a god is not a stray dog, a god is too jealous to be starved of worship"

chestnut finally says "yes"