Jaachi Writes

Prose & Poetry Hood presents Wet Heavens , a collection of poems on love, romance and sex. Wet Heavens is a rich collection of poetica crafted with poetic ingenuity. The poet paints erotic lines with wet ink for lovers of the apple of love. You can't resist it. The bliss is heavenly. The author, NWANKWO PROSPER O. is a student of Mass Communications at the Federal Polytechnic, Oko. He lives in and writes from Anambra State.  He is a poet who loves the noise in silences. He is sapiosexual. He strongly believes “poetry is a lonely busy road, a pilgrim perfectly grokked when rubbing the spirit to the flesh, for redemption". Wet Heavens is edited by  Funso Oris  and published by Prose & Poetry Hood . Click HERE  to Download eBook  Click  HERE  to download/buy more books by  Stefn Sylvester Anyatonwu Kindly subscribe to our newsletter below to receive automatic update via email.

'The PIN magazine, Expound, WRR Poetry, My Mind Snaps, etc, which may be seen as local blogs/magazines/organizations, are more reputable than some of the foreign publications that we know worship.'  -  Kukogho Iruesiri Samson This got me thinking. What's so special about being published by foreign magazines, blogs, journals, etc?  Why are we African writers like this? Why do we find it unexciting to feature our works on our local magazines, blogs and journals? How will we have big literary bodies in Africa when we crawl overseas for recognition and endorsement?  Isn't this a mental colonization? It isn't? What then could it be? Personally, I don't find foreign submissions, recognition and endorsements exciting. Would rather send my works to local e-magazines, blogs, websites and my blog. Nigerian literature will remain colonized by the 'west' if we keep demeaning our local literary initiatives.  We should learn to support our local literary blogs, journa...