NIGERIAN STUDENTS POETRY PRIZE

Nigerian Students Poetry Prize

An initiative of 

Poets in Nigeria (PIN)

Supported by 

Association of faculty of Art students, University of Ibadan

PRIZES

First prize: 100,000.00

Second prize: 50,000.00

Third prize: 30,000.00

Submission guidelines 

*Only undergraduate students of Nigerian tertiary institutions are eligible to enter for the contest.

*There are no fixed theme for the contest. Participants are allowed to freely explore themes relevant to contemporary times.

*All entrant are entitled to a single entry of limitless word count.

*Submission should be accompanied by biography, comprising full name, level, department and Faculty. 

*Name of tertiary institution should also be distinctively mentioned alongside contact details (email address and phone number)

*All submissions should be forwarded to nspp2016@gmail.com

*Submission deadline: 15th March 2016.

All entrants should subscribe to

www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng

What if? A poem by Osigwe Benjamin

WHAT IF?

What if I left

In the middle of a sucking night

And leave no foot prints

To be retraced?

Will my crafted pictures

Still be in your heart?

What If doors after doors

Are shut at my face

And at every turn

A hand waves (farewell)

Will I be that same man

You promised a part of your heart?

What If I got lost

In the battle field

Of forgotten memories

Where men embrace the unseen

And their souls are kissed by flying bullets

Will you wish to own me back again?

What if am an illusion

But, well illustrated in your mind

Will you wish

To be forever drowned in illusion?

Or what if

I bake you sweet words

From the depth of an insane mind

Will you wish for more words of mine?

But what if the world decides

To feast on my skull

Will you freely will me to them?

And what if these questions

Are all rhetorics?

Will you want them answered

So you can be forever planted

In my heart?

Osigwe Benjamin

2016

  

Osigwe Benjamin is one of the youngest Poetry Promoters in Nigeria. He is a written and performance poet. He was featured in the 16th
LAGOS BOOK AND ART FESTIVAL "LABAF" 2014, GreatPath media concert, Freedom Spoke Words, Be Blessed, and Fist (Feast) Of Words, and many other notable poetry events in Nigeria.

Some of his poems were featured
in BLACK COMMUNION POETRY ANTHOLOGY, and he was also on the EGC TOP 50Poets who rocked Nigeria in 2015.

Benjamin is the manager of "The Poetry Court" (thepoetrycourt.blogspot.com).
An online community of writers. A platform to support and promote written, spoken and performance poetry across the world.

Benjamin is also a poet who believes in poetry
for consciousness and social change, and thus advocate that poetry should move, speak and take actions through the pen.

#Antsrace vs #Humanrace

The much anticipated #Antsrace video is out.

What are the qualities found among Ants
That among human are quite scant?

Do you know the unique traits, traced to the small #Antsrace that makes the #Humanrace a very big disgrace?

Find out in this powerful #spokenwordvideo by Poethick samurai
Watch and share  https://youtu.be/cKaY4iUK7uc

Olayinka Samson Aremu popularly known as Poethick samurai  is an outstanding spokenwordpoet in Nigeria. He was nominated as the number(7) poet who rocked Nigeria in 2015 (Egc Top50 contemporary poets who rocked Nigeria 2015). He has been proffered numerous awards, such as the "Pillar Of F.O.S (Figures of Speech) 2015." "Most Outstanding Achiever Of The Year" (F.O.S Awards) 2015.

Samurai was a 1st runner-up at The Abuja Literary Poetry Slam 2015 and a 2nd runner-up at The Eko Poetry Slam, 2015. He was also the 1st runner-up at (War Of Word4) 2014.

ANTS RACE (Spokenwordpoem)

COMING SOON…

A New Video on EGC TV
Title: ANTS RACE
Artist: SAMURAI
Featuring: LIAMZ
Director: Enigmatic Olumide
Post production: EGC Studios
Genre: Spoken Words Poetry
Duration: 4min 37sec
Production: Dec 2015
Date of Release: January 12, 2016

You can subscribe before the video release, follow the link below, the video will hit your e-mail soon as it gets released:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY0opNAnehHFWrpTnk0-AyA

                                                 Poethick Samurai

Egc Top50 contemporary poets that rocked Nigeria in 2015.

HAPPY NEW YEAR ONCE AGAIN

Below is the List of TOP 50 CONTEMPORARY POETS WHO ROCKED NIGERIA IN YEAR 2015:

http://egcreativity.blogspot.in/2016/01/top-50contemporary-poets-who-rocked.html

Kemistree Bakare was nominated as the NO1 spokenwordpoet who ROCKED NIGERIA IN 2015.

Thanks to all lovers of poetry and those who nominated Kemistree. Love you so much!.

http://egcreativity.blogspot.in/2016/01/top-50-contemporary-poets-who-rocked.html

Thank you so much.

Rock on with Edaoto and Kemistree

ROCK ON WITH EDAOTO

Live music with Edaoto and spokenword performance by Kemistree Bakare. Live at freedom park Lagos.

1 Hospital Road, Broad Street, Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria.

8Th January, 2016.


EXPECT:
Helplessly in love
Aremu
Why do we have to hide by Kemistree.
All in one Night!

FIST (FEAST) OF WORDS

The theme “FIST (FEAST) OF WORDS” was derived from the United Nations Human Rights Day which is observed every year on 10 December to commemorate the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

We believe that the power of words, wielded by writers in all the literary genres, is very important in the entrenchment of human rights.

The festival will celebrate words, and the many forms in which humans have lumped them for meaning – poems, songs, stories, speeches, drama

NO COUNTRY

There's no country

Only land for dead bones

Where pipelines transport blood

There's no home

Only scared roofs and building

Housing living ghost

There's no conscience

Only false remorse

And strong denial

There's no poem

For they are no words

Only tragedies beyond metaphor

There's no truth

Only makeup stories

With truthful lies for plot

There's no humanity

Only pathetic sympathy

Grown out of pretence

There's no true love

Only fidgeting affections

The imposter of love

There's no Government

For there's no constitution

Only who gets what and how

There's no Rome

so we have nothing to build

out of this concrete smoke.

KEMISTREE BAKARE

June 29, 2015.

BARD POETS FOR WRR

12-12-15
FEAST OF WORDS
FIST OF WORDS
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Arts Theatre,
Department of Theatre Arts,
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
@WRRPoetry ‪#‎FistOfWords‬