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Sylvester Kwakye

02 / Selected writing

Selected Poems

Published across literary journals — from the Rising Phoenix Review to the Archipelago.

Publication index

14 poems

  1. Born here, I am already a sinner

    Archipelago

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  2. carving a new skull before sunshine

    Coffin Bell Journal

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  3. Remembrall

    Cool Beans Lit

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  4. ode to the times we felt trapped in jinxed bodies

    Fifth Wheel Press

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  5. Before you kiss a reptile, be sure your lips are dead

    Ignatian Literary Magazine

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  6. we, behind the barbarian borders

    Loud Coffee Press (pages 6-7)

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  7. There's a place more than home

    Metachrosis Library (Pages 28-29)

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  8. those days / after a successful coup

    PassionFruit Review

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  9. bing bang(/) Genesis

    Poor Yorick (page 2)

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  10. the shock when I see people get medals at the Olympic games

    Progenitor Literary

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  11. Don't tell my President this is my poem.

    Rising Phoenix Review

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  12. I, chief mourner

    The Rising Phoenix Review

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  13. to the white Lord

    The Amistad

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  14. To Hanson, the girl who taught me long-division & 2 other poems

    The Rumen

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