Kwame Opoku-Duku

Oct 21, 2024 | thecommononline.org | Kwame Opoku-Duku

Issue 28, Issue 28 Poetry, Poetry By KWAME OPOKU-DUKUWas it all simply adornment,watching the rain fall from the sun, or the mourning dove that carried the wallet-sized photo in its beak? Looking back, it was true— I had stopped seeing the beauty in it all, living from moment to moment, looking to be granted some small sense of pleasure, as if by respite or charity.

Jan 16, 2024 | joylandmagazine.com | Kwame Opoku-Duku

But from the very start, from the very first day we meet at a party in The Mission, I know she is destined to haunt me, the way everyone, everything, eventually does. She is wearing an olive-colored jumpsuit, cuffed to the ankles, white Chuck Taylors and a high-top afro that she wears like a deity. A mutual acquaintance introduces her as my poet friend Mari, and we talk for nearly an hour about her work.

Jan 11, 2024 | thecommononline.org | Adrienne Su |Eleanor Stanford |Kwame Opoku-Duku |William Fargason

New poems by ADRIENNE SU, ELEANOR STANFORD, KWAME OPOKU-DUKU, and WILLIAM FARGASONTable of Contents:Adrienne Su, “Solitude”Eleanor Stanford, “Lover, before the pandemic”Kwame Opoku-Duku, “Glory”William Fargason, “Holy Saturday”Solitude By Adrienne SuMy body rebelledagainst the amorphousnessof Americanmotherhood, which askedme to be availableas if I were fivewomen: two grandmas,a sister-in-law, an aunt,and me, whoeverthat was anymore(amorphous from the Greek a,without, morphè, shape).