The Red Wheelbarrow invites you to a special reading by VANGILE GANTSHO on 11 May!
vangile gantsho is a healer and poet and the co-founder of impepho press – a Pan Africanist intersectional feminist publishing house. She is the author of two poetry collections: red cotton (2018) and Undressing in Front of the Window (2015). She holds an MA, with distinction, from the University Currently Known as Rhodes and is a graduate of the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute (Pioneer Class). In 2018, she was named one of Mail & Guardian’s Top Young 200 South Africans. Her poetry has been published in various literary publications around the globe, including New Daughters of Africa (2019) and has lived on stages across three continents. She has curated and produced in-person and online international programmes and co-created a poetry and film meditation called forgetting. and memory. with Toni Giselle Stuart and Vusumzi Ngxande. gantsho dedicates herself and her work to creating and/or supporting spaces that encourage (black feminine visibility and) healing.
As always, the reading by the featured poet will be followed by an open mic session for poets from the audience. Poets are welcome to read from their own work as well as from the work of a favourite poet.
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9529041131?pwd=M2VUL3RNWGMvMFZCU1Zuemt6QnU3Zz09
Date: 11th May 2023
Time: 19:30 SAST
Meeting ID: 952 904 1131
Passcode: 12345
Poems by poets featured previously at TRW can be found on our blog: https://redwheelbarrowpoet.wixsite.com/website
Recordings of our weekly Zoom readings can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvbxcIebbMjz-CyhqIUEasg/videos
Photo credit: Victor Dlamini
