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About Ijagun Poetry Journal

Ijagun Poetry Journal is a quarterly journal that provides a platform from which we can tell our own stories in the authenticity of their multiplicity through the poetic medium. We don’t want to hear these stories from our master “griots” alone; we want to hear from those mastering their art, too. Hence, we aim at publishing new and emerging poets. We also welcome the works of established poets in order to encourage the poetic genius of those mastering poetic art. We prize original works that conform to, break or reinvent conventions. Again, we accept reviews and critical essays on poetry. We also accept powerful art works and photographs that make us appreciate the "poetry" in everything.

I’m a Prostitute

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

In actions I believe though it’s a forceful belief In love, I go mute ’cause I’m a prostitute Parents left when I was twelve not a penny in our shelve Family lent some hands But only to remove my pants … Continue reading →

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Lost in time

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

Now his foes yawn throughout the day and their table craves for a flower vase and a drop box. They have killed the unicorn! But their hands are stainless but their eyes are daisy. Arindam Banerjee

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I am only I

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

You are Attired and Arrayed and Assured in your conspicuous excellence, And I am only I Think, imagine, picture yourself as a tree of great shade See in your mind its immensity Its mighty boughs and the birds among them. … Continue reading →

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Holding Almost

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

As one gets older Getting older seems to change. Time no longer passes The way a car passes, Getting smaller in the distance, Concentrating, Consolidating; the thing That passed a moment ago And the spot that dots the road’s end … Continue reading →

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Call for Submissions

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

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 considered for … Continue reading →

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IJAGUN POETRY JOURNAL: Vol. 2, No. 1, March 2014

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

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 what happens when nothing … Continue reading →

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IJAGUN POETRY JOURNAL

Posted on May 4, 2014 by 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 … Continue reading →

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Tim Trimble

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

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 Publishers. His latest book is … Continue reading →

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Paul Benton

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

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 appear in dozens of journals including … Continue reading →

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Mahima Gupta

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

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 one’s … Continue reading →

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