Passion to Love and Other Poems

Born in Asaba on the River Niger in Delta State, Dora Obi Chizea, comes from a lineage of Traditional African Composers of music and dance. She started writing poetry in the 9th Grade and published her first collection of poems "Streams and Rivers of Blood," war poems about Biafra in 1969. A student at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, at the time, the foreword was written by her English Professor, Elizabeth Woodworth. Since then, she has published countless poems in anthologies, newspapers and magazines. In recent years, Dora Chizea has become a celebrated poet contributing to several poetic anthologies by the International Library of Poetry in the USA and the Noble House Publishing UK.