The Arts-Muse Fair

CHANGE See My back is constant with ravages of  time Look at my shoulders where the dust of yesteryears have settled See I am a series of phases allergic to boring sameness Look at my feet limping towards freshness giving no mind to originality Listen I am resilience I am change I    STOP (After Paterson) I limp towards  The headlights On paved road With dry shrubs  By one side And blooming roses By another The road becomes- Two becomes four So I run Like hare But four becomes- Eight becomes sixteen Like in a mirror dimension So I stop And the sun Fell on my palm The imagined mirror shatters And the road becomes  One sincerely, -------- Maryam Gatawa, pen name Meegat, is a young Poet and writer who live in Kano, Nigeria. She is a graduate of Economics from Bayero University, Kano in Nigeria. She is a human activist with special concern in...

Every Wednesday, an uncommon literary fervor sweeps through the timelines of Northern Nigerian Facebook users. It is the ' Poetic Wednesdays’ , an online poetry movement founded and driven by millennials of Northern Nigerian origin passionate about writing and reading poetry in the English language. One 24-year-old poet from Zaria, a graduate of URP currently serving on the NYSC started it all. Read the Art-Muse Fair interview with Salim Yunusa, the founder of ‘Poetic Wednesdays’.          TAMF : This poetic movement, how did it all start? Salim Yunusa : It was more of an organic movement. I wrote a poem, used the hashtag #PoeticWednesday, and encouraged others to do so. Never knew it would be so well received by people. The movement started last year May. I was still in school then (ABU, Zaria). It's really surprising how far we've come along, all of us, with no external support. Consistency and dedication of our members got us to w...