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Hello guys! The print edition of my collection of poems, Something Happened After the Rain, is available! You can also see it on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Something-Happened-After-Rain-Poems/dp/148280252X or http://www.amazon.ca/Something-Happened-After-Rain-Poems/dp/148280252X), Google Books (http://books.google.com/books?id=Q2FvBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT73&lpg=PT73&dq=something+happened+after+the+rain&source=bl&ots=kpAwJTgLKi&sig=SE_j_xd6COrsNnsM_z_vnKO8nwo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AZdvVNqsCbaJsQTLrIHQCw&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAg =onepage&q=something%20happened%20after%20the%20rain&f=false), Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Gabriel_Bamgbose_Something_Happened_After_the_Rain?id=Q2FvBAAAQBAJ), Barnes & Noble (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/something-happened-after-the-rain-gabriel-bamgbose/1120146099?ean=9781482802528&itm=1&usri=9781482802528&cm_mmc=AFFILIATES-_-Linkshare-_-onVyJopRmtU-_-15:9781482802528&r=1) among others!

Something Happened After the Rain: Poems Available in: NOOK Book (eBook), Paperback. The poems in this collection concatenate myriad of happenings in life which, though may take a similar course, do not leave us to grin and grimace at the same time. The turn of events in life, like ra

Thank you, Maya Angelou. May you rest in peace.

Legendary author and poet Maya Angelou passed away this morning at the age of 86. She was one of the greats and there will never be another like her. If you ever walked by her side, read any of her books or poems, heard her speak or simply witnessed her smile you were blessed. She touched the world and inspired so many people with her beautiful words and actions. Her spirit will continue to live on forever! We will probably never forget your words, but we will definitely never forget how you made us feel!

Dr. Angelou was a poet, a teacher an activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning more than fifty years. She received dozens of awards and over thirty honorary doctoral degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of seventeen, and brought her international recognition and acclaim.

She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, night-club dancer and performer, cast-member of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the days of decolonization. She was an actor, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs. Since 1982, she taught at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she holds the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Since the 1990s she made around eighty appearances a year on the lecture circuit, something she continued into her eighties. In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.

Call for Submissions Ijagun Poetry Journal invites submissions of poetry, reviews, essays, and anything about poetry for its June 2014 issue. We also welcome art works and photographs for the issue. Please, endeavour to send your work before 20th June, 2014 if you want it… [ 71 more words. ]

IJAGUN POETRY JOURNAL: Vol. 2, No. 1, March 2014 Editor’s Note What is poetry if it carries not an iota of poetic truthS? I must acknowledge that I owe the idea of truthS to Linda Hutcheon. When Charles Bukowski expresses the view that “Poetry is...

IJAGUN POETRY JOURNAL Vol. 2 – No. 1            March 2014 Contents Tim Trimble The Slap Dreaming Diego We Two Paul Benton The Ice Cream Man Is Burning The Magical On the East Bank of Mississippi River, New Orleans Mahi...

Tim Trimble Ken Trimble is sixty years old and he lives on a mountain in south eastern Australia in a town called Warburton. He has published six books; four books of the six were published by Littlefox Publis...

Paul Benton Paul Benton was born in Sedalia, Missouri (short-lived home of Scott Joplin) and learned early on to love and appreciate poetry and wordplay through Dr Seuss and Edgar Allen Poe. He has had poetry ...

Mahima Gupta Mahima Gupta is a 17-year old poet from Kolkata, India. She is a student of Class 12. Writing has been a very important part of her life since the time she realises how wonderful it is to pen down ...

Basit Olatunji Basit A. Olatunji was born in Ifon-osun, Osun State, Nigeria. He is a poet, an editor and an essayist. His first poetry collection, Thoughtful Reflections, was published in 2011. He is also working...

Stephen Mead When not being a creatively-frustrated Secretary employed by a very nice University in NY, Stephen Mead is a published artist, writer, maker of short collage-films and poetry/music mp3s.  Much can ...