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Today's poem is "The Grey Mousebirds"

from New Orleans Review

Stephen Derwent Partington is married into Kenya, and authored the collection SMS & Face to Face (Phoenix, Kenya). His How to Euthanise a Cactus (Cinnamon Press, 2010) was one of the Africa Report's "Best Books of the Year from Africa," and features numerous poems on Kenya's post-election violence. Stephen's academic papers on Kenyan literature have appeared in refereed journals. He is presently editing an anthology of Anglophone Kenyan poetry since the fall of Moi in 2003.

Books by Stephen Derwent Partington:

Other poems on the web by Stephen Derwent Partington:
"Satao"
Six poems
"Praise Poem"
"From Morning to Evening"
Four poems

About New Orleans Review:

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Poetry Editor: Sophia Stone

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