In the corner to the left of the entrance of the cheap fast food joint, two friends, both female, sat facing each other sharing a bottle of coke. They were seated in what could be described as the dirtiest looking […]
If you gripped my shoulders today, shook me hard and yelled at me to say just one thing to my younger self, I would laugh at you and tell you that I had nothing to say. But if you insisted, like really insisted, I would take two deep breaths and […]
I have often contemplated how my visual art could be viewed through a more literary perspective and I think some of my stuff has the potential of being directly related to poetry. Other times I think of my own artistic medium as something completely distinct from any other forms of […]
Ghana is interested in skateboarding and its gradual acceptance in society is evident, even if skateboarders have been in existence for nearly up to fifteen years. Cool brands are all flying down to make photoshoots with skateboarders, big foreign TV stations, Vogue, CNN, BBC, name it. But there was a time when it […]
Claudia Owusu is a senior Creative Writing major at Otterbein University with minors in Film Studies and Race & Ethnic Studies. Her work has appeared in Quiz & Quill, Otterbein University’s Literary Magazine, Wusgood.black, 20.35 African Contemporary Poetry through Brittle Paper, and Ohio’s Best Emerging Poets 2017 and 2018. Her […]
I am beside him on the hospital bed watching him cry a deeply retching cry that contorts his face into a mask of pain and vibrates his body. Teary-eyed, mouth open to the world. On his right hand is a large slice of pawpaw, his first meal in days. He […]
Americans at malls Americans at malls take their business seriously. I was shocked by how little laughter was present at all the malls I went to. It was as if there was a hard creed, a written code of patriotism, that required those shopping to be in control of their […]
Class Dismissed I forget how many have lost themselvesWhen they crashed against my jagged edgesThey figured they were sailorsUntil they floundered in the sea that is me I’ve lost count of all who tried to build hereWanting to tame my wild into domesticityWhat a lesson in futilityClass dismissed CyclesSurely,I am […]