Emptying Self by Tshepo Molefe

[tabby title="Poem"] When you've drank every dropthe Night offers,the sunrise will expose your experched on the duct of your tears. Your hangover spills all the teaof your shame-filled night.Tells the world how your exappeared more vividly in each sip.How her...

Things IDK by Tshepo Molefe

[tabby title="Poem"] 1. How to teach a nation I'm othered by, how to save electricity.2. Realising the othering happened when fictional lines were drawn by colonisation.3. Recognising the borders weren't drawn in our DNAs.4. Mislabling my existence as 'accident'.5. Correcting...

Surviving…by Tshepo Molefe

I am my father’s cooking Lacking maternal love In each stir I am Marvin’s (Gaye) orphaned notes Singing Ma back to life My family is the result of wishing for the dead And being answered by silence... My family is...

Poet Profile: Tshepo Molefe

Tshepo Molefe is a Johannesburg based multiaward winning poet, writer and spoken word artist and soon to be copywriter. Having only started performing in 2015, Molefe has won the May 2016 Current State of Poetry Open Slam and the February...

The 7th Word N Sound Festival is Here!

When Words Collide 7th Word N Sound International Youth Poetry Festival 2017 4 – 8 October 2017, Market Theatre Lab, Newtown Feat: Msaki, Leshie Lovesong (Botswana), Alessandro Lutman (Italy), Modise Sekgothe, Hakeen Anderson-Lesolang, Mutinta Bbenkele (Zambia), Kwazi Ndlangisa, Emmah Mabye,...