I want to go for it as skill comes with practice

 (Contributor – To Fawn) Dear Fawn: Having read your call to contribute to your new column, I hear by send you the above three short poems. A City in the City Wraps... Read more »

Tribute to Kobe Bryant

What is it about Kobe Bryant That makes me feel like crying And fills my chest With a dollop of emotion That surges to my eyes And fills them with salty tears... Read more »

The elegant life

Solomon and Mesfin are siblings. They are neither identical nor fraternal twins. So they arrived from different fertilized eggs at different times. Mesfin smoothly slipped through his mother’s birth canal without caesarian... Read more »

Abdissa Aga, the unsung hero

Minas Halefom is a young Ethiopian artist who graduated in political science. Even if he is a graduate of political science, his desire for art is always a source of inspiration to... Read more »

From zero to hero

No one can deny the fact that Ethiopia is blessed with more than eighty Nations, Nationalities and Peoples. More to the point, they are known for their attention-grabbing culture, tradition, history, clothing... Read more »

My People

on a quest for belongingness i became blind under the shield of sunglasses i really became blind i did everything i did whatever: imitating words imitating sentences imitating movements to belong to... Read more »

Poor Desalegn! (Based on child abuse and neglect)

It was too early for a child of eight to rise to fetch water from the distant river. At about 6 a:m, an angry father came to the place where Desalegn was... Read more »

Poor Desalegn!

 ( Short Story) (Based on child abuse and neglect) It was too early for a child of eight to rise to fetch water from the distant river. At about 6 a:m, an... Read more »

From Homer to Alexievich:

Top 10 books about the human cost of war  The novelist explains how literature illuminates soldiers’ experience, and how it helped her depict the women who fought Mussolini in Ethiopia rowing up... Read more »