A TRIP TO THE WORLD OF FANTASY WITH JAMES INA'S

It's another wonderful week. And as usual how fruitful was your previous week? Well its always being a question you get to answer yourself. And today I learnt about "humility vs success" in a very illuminating way;

     John 12:24__Verily, verily, I say unto          you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

Phil 2:6,7___:Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name...
Take our time to go through the full chapter. Learn and grow daily.

Alright to the business of the day:
My last post about the "Warsan Shire" actually spurred me into wanting to know more about female poets. And it's being an awesome feel all along. Every poet has there way of resonating life in his or her Art. But most female poets whom I've studied, and who have there root in Africa seems to command this life naturally in their work. If you took out time to look up "Shire's" work you would understand better. Shire's poems do not  just pleasure you with words, but makes you part of the reality she creates with words. Another thing I discovered, is the fact that most, if not all award winning African poets studied abroad. This might sound so insignificant. Like what have studying abroad got to do with winning awards. I presume you just ponder on the implications, and lets make it a  discussion for another day.
Today let's check out another amazing poet by the name Ladan Osman.

Ladan Osman was born in Somalia. She earned a BA at Otterbein College and an MFA at the University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers. Her chapbook, Ordinary Heaven, appears in Seven New Generation African Poets (Slapering Hol Press, 2014). Her full-length collection The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) won the Sillerman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Apogee, The Normal School, Prairie Schooner, Transition Magazine, and Waxwing.

Osman has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Cave Canem, and the Michener Center. She is a contributing editor at The Offing and lives in Chicago.

You really don't want to just read this and not check her works out.

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