#Caleb Femi

[follow-the-river]

#quotes #poetry #caleb femi #child of apollo #songbird #a mother's love

[the-replacemints]

source and transcript under the cut

after “The First Time You Hold a Gun”

My mother’s heartbeat the first time I heard a baseline. Her womb, the first room I danced in. How did it go again? Kick cloud-soft twirl stretch dark gulf neon on my clay brain. Kick . . . Then the melody drops & her vocals come in.

[VERSE 1]

There will be strife, burnt days, a God besides me sex & crueler colours than the abyss but there will be this.

#poetry #caleb femi

[thackerycinx]

#industry hbo #season 2 #kitchen season #caleb femi #mickey down #konrad kay #sagar radia #david jonsson #caoilfhionn dunne #indy lewis #harry lawtey #myha'la herrold #marisa abela #alex alomar akpobome #bonus shots #dope shit

[victorletras]

#redação #design #caleb femi #Instagram

[seaanimalonland]

Here Too Spring Comes to Us with Open Arms | Caleb Femi

& it looks like this:

a few youngers sprawled like a deck of trick cards on the back stairs talking all that talk about any day now they’ll be taken under the wing of a dragon

little cousins unseen in the side pocket of the function plotting a sleepover if you ask my mum and I ask yours they’ll say yes

twilight and three unbroken voices at the back of the bus flat earth theories flat asses flat shoes – sweet nonsense chatting

wickedest whine from Chantel and the boy would’ve fell on the dance floor if the arms of his bredrin didn’t hold him up (like scaffolding)

two men bouncing along the pavement through another eye they look like young dolphins slicing coastal waves

two schoolgirls walking down the street laughing nobody knows why

a room of unraveling ribbons reaching for the same microphone to spit over an eskimo instrumental

a boy smiles at the mirror welcoming a new strip of muscle breaking through the sheen of boyishness

a fresh pair of Air Jordans, clean like a smile and everywhere they touch is hallowed ground

a boy who takes pain like a stone looks up and imagines stars hanging in the night sky like meditating monks

a girl sends a risky text: the universe gasps and sound falls in on itself a riskier reply is received

at dusk the boy walks through the park no police no opps only the company of spirits

#poetry #Caleb Femi

[whlgrainmustard]

Here Too Spring Comes to Us with Open Arms

& it looks like this:

a few youngers sprawled like a deck of trick cards on the back stairs

talking all that talk about any day now they’ll be taken under the wing of a dragon

little cousins unseen in the side pocket of the function plotting a sleepover

if you ask my mum and I ask yours they’ll say yes

twilight and three unbroken voices at the back of the bus

flat earth theories flat asses flat shoes – sweet nonsense chatting

wickedest whine from Chantel and the boy would’ve fell on the dance floor

if the arms of his bredrin didn’t hold him up (like scaffolding)

two men bouncing along the pavement

through another eye they look like young dolphins slicing coastal waves

two schoolgirls walking down the street laughing

nobody knows why

a room of unraveling ribbons reaching for the same microphone

to spit over an eskimo instrumental

a boy smiles at the mirror welcoming a new strip of muscle

breaking through the sheen of boyishness

a fresh pair of Air Jordans, clean like a smile

and everywhere they touch is hallowed ground

a boy who takes pain like a stone looks up and imagines

stars hanging in the night sky like meditating monks

a girl sends a risky text: the universe gasps and sound falls in on itself

a riskier reply is received

at dusk the boy walks through the park

no police no opps only the company of spirits

- Caleb Femi

#poetry #postwar British #Caleb Femi

[forasecondtherewedwon]

Novels for Black History Month (Refreshed)

Titles, authors, and genres below the cut! Favourites are starred!

YA:

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas*

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas*

Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant*

Your Corner Dark by Desmond Hall

Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackson

Mystery/Thriller:

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby*

Lightseekers by Femi Kayode

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

Sci-fi/Fantasy/Magic Realism:

Rosewater by Tade Thompson

Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis

The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin*

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Historical:

Deacon King Kong by James McBride*

The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill*

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan*

Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan*

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson*

The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard

The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (May 2021)

Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Faladé*

Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe*

Contemporary:

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

New People by Danzy Senna

Swing Time by Zadie Smith*

Loving Day by Mat Johnson

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Real Life by Brandon Taylor

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson*

The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams*

Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson*

#Black History Month #book recommendations #redid the grid to add some new favourites! #rec 'em all but * are five-star faves

[iwouldvebeendrake01]

“[Your poem]’s so beautiful on the page, and it’s so profound to hear it vibrate through you as a performer as well. And of course, that is something that sets you and so many other poets and writers apart from the poets that we learned about at school perhaps, is there is this element of performance. There is this incredible physical reclaiming of the art form and of your narrative and of the words.” - Zawe Ashton to Caleb Femi for Why Poetry Belongs To All Of Us, with Caleb Femi and Zawe Ashton: Lit in Colour Penguin Talk

#zawe ashton #zashtonedit #dailywomen #marvelcastedit #writing #my edits #mine

[halalwife]

hi! if you had any book lists/recos, could you pls share? thx!

hi! off the top of my head i would recommend

- agua viva by clarice lispector

- botchan by natsume soseki

- a pale view of hills by kazuo ishiguro

- the days of abandonment by elena ferrante

- too much and not the mood by durga chew-bose

- just us / don’t let me be lonely by claudia rankine

- poor by caleb femi

- little weirds by jenny slate

- the copenhagen trilogy by tove ditlevsen

- pure colour by sheila heiti

- places i’ve taken my body by molly mccully brown

- open water by caleb azumah nelson

- little misunderstandings of no importance by antonio tabucchi

- the lemon by mohamed mrabet

- her body and other parties by carmen maria machado

hope any these are of help/interest to u! 🫶🏾🫧🤍

#book recommendations #reads

[realistian]

What are your top 5 favourite poetry books?

I actually don't read a lot of poetry books, so I'll give two that I own and like:

Poor by Caleb Femi

Poems of Black Africa edited by Wole Soyinka

[jatuskicommunications]

INEC Chairman, REGs Offices Should Be Advertised - Falana

By KATO P. LADAN, Kaduna Nigeria must ensure that true winners of elections emerge before swearing in, Plateau State Governor,  Caleb Mutfwang and human rights activist Femi Falana and others have said. They spoke separately at the Haske Satumari Foundation annual colloquium with the theme, “Electoral And Judicial Reforms: The Imperatives on Nigeria’s Democracy, Governance, Leadership and its…

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[thackerycinx]

#industry hbo #season 2 #short to the point of pain #naana agyei ampadu #myha'la herrold #alex alomar akpobome #indy lewis #marisa abela #sonny poon tip #harry lawtey #sagar radia #david jonsson #ken leung #caleb femi #bonus shots #dope shit

[otherportraits]

Famous Bagels and Judith Butler to cure depression

Here's another one despite the ever present doom of what tf to do with my life. Another one because I quit my job and can't find a new one. Another one because my money is running out and I just really need a new email in my inbox so I can go out and buy a croissant. Another one because otherwise I will doom scroll until I need to pee.

Yesterday I went down a rabbit hole of looking into Judith Butler and now I need to loan Gender Trouble from the library because that is apparently my current obsession. The other four books I currently have on loan will not suffice, it must be this specific book on gender theory. Anything else I simply cannot give my attention to. I've tried - I started reading Hurricane Season and got absolutely fucked by the first four pages that now I need to wait until I'm feeling intelligent enough to reattempt. That book is not for the person who is stressing about their upcoming job interview. It will not crush that anxiety, the premise is too outrageous from the start. Then as I was waiting for the train I began to read Caleb Femi's poetry collection Poor and absolutely ripped through that to the point where nothing has remained in my brain. That was post-interview and I was too busy thinking about how I bombed in my nerves and how fucked the STAR method is. I am not hopeful but know that manifesting does work so should cheer tf up. The only thing that I believe can truly distract me from the growing depression (there, I admit it) I feel at the moment is Gender Trouble because I have always been good at creating new areas of interest not maintaining them. Things that I already like, put them in the trash. They are not enough for the coming storm, if previous experience is anything to go by.

I was waiting for the train to take me to Liverpool Street because I wanted to visit Brick Lane and treat myself after the interview. It ended up being nothing short of an unfocused, lonely outing where I couldn't afford anything and all the cafe's were too busy because it was 12pm and all the office and retail folk of E1 were eating. As if to remind me the only people who can afford to eat in this city are the employed, Matisse, the employed. I literally just interviewed for a job with a food rescue charity though so surely there's some connection there that gets me a seat at (one of) the table(s) (in your fine establishment)!!! Surely the attempt is enough. So I got a famous bagel and leaned against a closed shopfront and devoured it like a famished retail worker on their break (appearances matter in London). I browsed some stores but had no luck finding anything that fit, and so just found myself becoming really lonely. I haven't been proper lonely in a while, have had the pleasure of having a boyfriend for the past 7 years and we spend so much time together. I used to grow annoyed at not having as much alone time, thought I was the kind of recluse introvert destined for the cabins and mountains and isolated coastlines. But turns out I'm an extrovert too and need interaction with people to have a life worth living. And need even more so when I'm sad. This, while also having the complete delusion at the start of the day that maybe I'll just spend the whole day inside because that's what I feel like doing. No girl, you're wilfully deluded get up. So yeah, I'm proper getting sad and need a job so I can fill the hole with external pleasures. I've had enough of myself, the only thing I wanna do with myself now is read Gender Trouble and be better company when I am blessed enough to be in the presence of others.

#26-30

[lasnalgas]

Here's another one despite the ever present doom of what tf to do with my life. Another one because I quit my job and can't find a new one. Another one because my money is running out and I just really need a new email in my inbox so I can go out and buy a croissant. Another one because otherwise I will doom scroll until I need to pee.

Yesterday I went down a rabbit hole of looking into Judith Butler and now I need to loan Gender Trouble from the library because that is apparently my current obsession. The other four books I currently have on loan will not suffice, it must be this specific book on gender theory. Anything else I simply cannot give my attention to. I've tried - I started reading Hurricane Season and got absolutely fucked by the first four pages that now I need to wait until I'm feeling intelligent enough to reattempt. That book is not for the person who is stressing about their upcoming job interview. It will not crush that anxiety, the premise is too outrageous from the start. Then as I was waiting for the train I began to read Caleb Femi's poetry collection Poor and absolutely ripped through that to the point where nothing has remained in my brain. That was post-interview and I was too busy thinking about how I bombed in my nerves and how fucked the STAR method is. I am not hopeful but know that manifesting does work so should cheer tf up. The only thing that I believe can truly distract me from the growing depression (there, I admit it) I feel at the moment is Gender Trouble because I have always been good at creating new areas of interest not maintaining them. Things that I already like, put them in the trash. They are not enough for the coming storm, if previous experience is anything to go by.

I was waiting for the train to take me to Liverpool Street because I wanted to visit Brick Lane and treat myself after the interview. It ended up being nothing short of an unfocused, lonely outing where I couldn't afford anything and all the cafe's were too busy because it was 12pm and all the office and retail folk of E1 were eating. As if to remind me the only people who can afford to eat in this city are the employed, Matisse, the employed. I literally just interviewed for a job with a food rescue charity though so surely there's some connection there that gets me a seat at (one of) the table(s) (in your fine establishment)!!! Surely the attempt is enough. So I got a famous bagel and leaned against a closed shopfront and devoured it like a famished retail worker on their break (appearances matter in London). I browsed some stores but had no luck finding anything that fit, and so just found myself becoming really lonely. I haven't been proper lonely in a while, have had the pleasure of having a boyfriend for the past 7 years and we spend so much time together. I used to grow annoyed at not having as much alone time, thought I was the kind of recluse introvert destined for the cabins and mountains and isolated coastlines. But turns out I'm an extrovert too and need interaction with people to have a life worth living. And need even more so when I'm sad. This, while also having the complete delusion at the start of the day that maybe I'll just spend the whole day inside because that's what I feel like doing. No girl, you're wilfully deluded get up. So yeah, I'm proper getting sad and need a job so I can fill the hole with external pleasures. I've had enough of myself, the only thing I wanna do with myself now is read Gender Trouble and be better company when I am blessed enough to be in the presence of others.

[clemsbiggestfan]

Literally just a list of every book I've read this year, ranked.

A Heart That Works - Rob Delaney

Written in Bone - Sue Black

Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield

The Memory of Animals - Claire Fuller

A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske

The Cockroach - Ian McEwan

Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

Notes on an Execution - Danya Kukafa

War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line - David Nott

It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism - Bernie Sanders

Taste - Stanley Tucci

Glutton: The Multi-Course Life of a Very Greedy Boy - Ed Gamble

Strong Female Character - Fern Brady

Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man - Emmanuel Acho

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

Sidesplitter - Phil Wang

LOTE - Shola von Reinhold

Vladimir - Julia May Jonas

Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus

Patricia Wants to Cuddle - Samantha Allen

Climate Change is Racist - Jeremy Williams

Chlorine - Jade Song

The Transgender Issue - Shon Faye

Le Consentement - Vanessa Springora

Black Klansman - Ron Stallworth

Pageboy - Elliot Page

The Herd - Andrea Bartz

All That Remains - Sue Black

James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media - James Acaster

What Would the Spice Girls Do? - Lauren Bravo

Educated - Tara Westover

The Frighteners - Peter Laws

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out - Jeremy Atherton-Lin

Fix the Systen, Not the Women - Laura Bates

The History Boys - Alan Bennett

Letters of Note: Love - Shaun Usher

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

What a Shame - Abigail Bergstrom

Burnt Sugar - Avni Doshi

Just by Looking at Him - Ryan O'Connell

Devil House - John Darnielle

Poor - Caleb Femi

The Decagon House Murders - Yukito Ayasuji

I'm Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya

I'm a Fan - Sheena Patel

The Mad Women's Ball - Victoria Mas

Daisy Chains - Lynne Vande Stouwe

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons - Sam Steiner

Confessions of a Funeral Director - Caleb Wilde

Misfits: A Personal Manifesto - Michaela Coel

Insomnia - Marina Benjamin

My Darling from the Lions - Rachel Long

Bluets - Maggie Nelson

Heatwave - Victor Jestin

#bookblr

[crimechannels]

By • Olalekan Fagbade JUST IN: Judgements sacking Kano, Plateau Governors should be reviewed – Femi Falana opens up It’s not ideal for judiciary to determine winners of elections – Falana Human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana, SAN Lagos Lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has said the judgements of the appellate court sacking the duo of Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State and Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State should be reviewed. Falana made this call in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. He said, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) failed in its duty to conduct proper elections in the country. He said the votes of Nigerians should not be nullified by the courts because of the supposed negligence of the electoral umpire that shouldn’t have cleared candidates put forward by parties without primaries conducted. He also said thousands of votes should not be invalidated by the court because INEC officials failed to stamp ballot sheets. Falana noted that election matters should be concluded before the inauguration of any administrations. Recall the appellate court sacked three governors that INEC declared as winners in the March 2023 poll. All the three governors sacked by the appellate court are in opposition parties. The court sacked Yusuf of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) and declared his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Nasir Gawuna, as the winner of the poll. In Zamfara, the appellate court sacked Governor Dauda Lawal of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) when it declared the poll inconclusive about eight months after. The court ordered INEC to conduct a fresh election in three local government areas of the state. PDP’s Lawal and APC’s Bello Matawalle are the major contenders in the race. On Sunday, the appellate court sacked PDP’s Mutfwang and ordered INEC to issue a Certificate of Return to APC’s Nentawe Goshwe. The court held that the party violated the court order that a valid congress be conducted in the 17 local government areas of that state. But, speaking on the judgements of the appellate court, Falana said INEC failed to perform due diligence before and during the elections. He said all those dissatisfied with the appeal court verdicts can go to the Supreme Court. “If you look at what happened in Lagos is different from what happened in Plateau. You are being told in Plateau that there was a judgement of the high court to the effect that primaries have to be conducted. The judgement, as usual, was dishonoured and disobeyed and the election went on.” He said the political class must learn to comply with the decision of the court. “It is different from Kano where you are being told that voters can be punished. It is a very dangerous judicial policy to sanction voters for the mistake of electoral officers. We are being told that 165,000 votes are wasted, they are invalid because some electoral officers committed an error by not stamping them. On how that affect the validity of election, Falana said, “I do hope that this time around the Supreme Court will resolve these needless controversies surrounding the non-stamping of ballot papers by INEC officials who have not been recommended for any sanction. “This is why these judgements will have to be reviewed.”