Tuesday, August 07, 2007

News at Eleven: [Musa] Okwonga knew he wasn't a lawyer,

he was a poet, a fact harder to break to his mother than his realisation that he was gay. His deeply Christian mother hardly spoke to him for years.

His painful coming-out not only informs much of his poetry, it steeled him for another realisation--a poet has no business practising law.

from The Times: Why rap if you can be a poet?

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