— in celebration of Myesha Jenkins (1948-2020)                  at the occasion of National Women’s Month 2023 two and a half years onyou still bring us togetherTuesday poets Whatsapp groupyou created for Myesha’s Memoirspodcasting our poetry and jazzto celebrate...

[tabby title="Poem"] just like when you slept at my heartbeatyour elbow nestles a nook of my neckwrist kisses my right templebreath dreamtalk lightdraft to my bare chestreawakening meto eight years back [tabby title="Poet Bio"] Salimah Valiani is the author of...

[tabby title="Poem"] Inclines (ii) — for Shamim Meer you call it where sky kisses earthI call it land of the skyis it the sky bendingor earth reaching growing up by the RockiesI only learned in Magaliesthe older the mountains the...

[tabby title="Poem"] Losing parts the Gestapo went door-to-doorlooking for the yellow star I wonder sometimes if anyone tried rallyingeveryoneto wear one as SAPS goes door-to-doortesting for words in isiZulu like Inkatha in Boipatong '92 it reminds me of a Shona...

[tabby title="Poem"] the coming eruption my first encounter with it walking fastMaboneng to townwith a fiercely internationalist filmmaker friend far east on Commissionerbefore Troyvillea hollow complex ringing withFanakalo liquid orange languagecreatedin the mines heated crossroads of thecountry entire Southern slice...