POETRY SEEN: 23rd Poetry Africa (7–12 October 2019)

Participating poets for the annual Poetry Africa Festival, hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), which takes place in Durban from 7 to 12 October 2019, have been announced. Celebrating its 23rd edition, the festival features...

To Breathe Into Another Voice: A South African anthology of jazz poetry

To Breathe Into Another Voice was recently launched at The Orbit Jazz club. This is an anthology of jazz poetry compiled and edited by avid Jazz lover and poet Myesha Jenkins. Published by Real African Publishers, the anthology explores jazz...

relevance quotables: Muriel MoAfrika Mokgathi

What makes your work relevant? My Sepedi pen and being a woman Activist my work is mostly relevant to women, for I speak emotions /experiences/situations they went though.   Muriel MoAfrika Mokgathi is a Mamelodi based saxophonist/Actress/singer and poetess, she...