Pan-African feminist publisher based in South Africa
Kwazi Ndlangisa ~ Day 29 of 21 Days. 21 Poets.
Kwazi is a poet, writer, translator, facilitator.
His chapbook – COLLECTING SELF will be available after the lockdown for R100.
Preorders vi FB, IG and/or email
You can contact Kwazi on:
@kwazipoetry (IG & Twitter)
KwaziNdlangisa (FB)
potofart@gmail.com
+27 73 737 8213
Stay Safe. Stay Home.
#inpoetrywehope #NoSmokeWithoutAStory
25 April, 18:00 CAT on IG Live
Come on by and be part of the experience!
#NoSmokeWithoutAStory
#fortheloveofpoetry
Join Busisiwe Mahlangu for an online writing workshop.
##SurvivingLoss #inpoetrywehope #NoSmokeWithoutAStory
Thank you for spending World Poetry Day with us. We gathered by the thousands. For poetry! Please stop by and watch the video on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/impephop/videos/3004358072964248/)
Please continue to donate if you can or support the artists by buying their merchandise or signing up to their patrean pages.
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impepho press
Here is your line up. Be sure to check your time zones and to share your thoughts on social media, using the hashtag #inpoetrywehope
If we are to be in crisis, let us at least have poetry!!!
Kim Addonizio wrote: “Writing a poem in such times may feel like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet we’re poets. Writing is what we do in the world – or part of it anyway – and as ephemeral as it might sometimes seem, the making of poems is a necessary act, one that allies itself with hope rather than despair.”
On World Poetry Day, impepho press, in collaboration with Bridges – A PanAfrican Movement and Hear My Voice are pulling together poets and poetry lovers who are deciding to align themselves with hope rather than dispair.
Join us! #inpoetrywehope #NoSmokeWithoutAStory
Danai Mupotsa will be a panelist at Wits University discussing Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy Across the Black Diaspora, a book by Keguro Macharia
17 March, 1-4 pm
#NoSmokeWithoutAStory
World Poetry Day is celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO in 1999, with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard.
Come by the Menlyn Mall Exclusive Books to hear Vangile Gantsho and Busisiwe Mahlangu’s performances. See you there at 12:30!
Date: 14 January 2020
Time: 2pm – 4pm
Venue: Constitution Hill, Educational Room, Johannesburg
Cost: Free
RSVP: r.nkomo@gmail.com
Limited space
A collaboration between impepho press and Refilwe Nkomo
Kathy Engel is a poet who has worked for nearly forty years at the nexus between social justice movements and art/imagination. Founder of the women’s human rights group, MADRE, she has cofounded numerous other groups and projects. She is Associate Arts Professor in the Department of Art & Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
vangile gantsho is a poet, healer and co-founder of impepho press. Unapologetically a black woman, she has travelled the continent and the globe participating in literary events and festivals. gantsho is the author of two poetry collections, Undressing in front of the window (2015) and red cotton (2018). She holds an MA from the University Currently Known as Rhodes (2016), and was recently named one of Mail & Guardian’s Top Young 200 South Africans of 2018.
We have many views on the 16 days activism campaign. And for all of them, we are thankful there is always poetry.
Busisiwe Mahlangu. Powerful.
@busimahlangu_
#SurvivingLoss
#16DaysOfActivism
#NoSmokeWithoutAStory
https://youtu.be/1nVDzh9Alfk