by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Apr 23, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Lot’s Wife I think today of the boy in choir class who closed his eyes when we sang about Jesus. Who swayed, as if the Lord himself was in the room. I sat in the back row and braided my girlfriend’s hair. Men are allowed to worship each other. To...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Apr 22, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
‘Attention, after all is prayer’ (Jo Bell) We saw a kingfisher threading the bright needle of his body along the river. We saw a shag, stamping her prehistoric shadow on the sky. We saw a hobby, compact, fierce, not a sinew out of place, alert and...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Apr 21, 2026 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Pipeline We walk from cane fields, cotton in our nightshirts, sweet sugar on our teeth. My peoples chant strong magic. My peoples beatbox in jail. Roger Robinson won the T.S. Eliot Prize (2019), the RSL Ondaatje Prize (2020), the...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Apr 10, 2026 | Word & Image
C O N T E N T W A R N I N G A N S W E R T H E F O L L O W I N G A S T R U T H F U L L Y A S P O S S I B L E : W H A T I S A R I S K A S S E S S M E N T ? an organized procedure / distinguishing jeopardy / appraising connected dangers within a body /...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Mar 30, 2026 | Filmpoems
The Music That Lives In Me In the aftermath When the dust is settled and silence restored I can still hear your melody and recite each conversation word for word What’s the use in a peace treaty, a zip-lipped truce? I’d rather burn...
