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Anthology: Volume 7

Each poem gifts us something better: the struggle to find identities, relations, meanings, and the struggle for a language that can do heavy lifting. Many of the poems grapple with the meaning of family and connection with others, with what we can find in God and what may be needed of us to answer that call properly.

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Can Poetry Offer Honesty and Alternative Returns?: On Poetry, Publication, and Finding Ways of Returning | Diepreye and Zibusiso Mpofu

I think poetry offers us alternative ways of return. One that easily comes to mind at the moment is return via memory. When we write in retrospect, a poem can help us return to the past to extract new interpretations and understandings of events and feelings – Diepreye

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“Storytelling Makes Us Feel More Like a Community” – An Interview with Martin Egblewogbe

One of the things that stories do is enhance our interconnectedness and help us understand the world better and try to remove that hermetically sealed mind space. Thinking about it, it’s quite possible to go through life believing that everything around you don’t exist and you create everything that is there because you live in your head. How do you then know that other people exist and feel what you feel? One way to see a different perspective of life other than yours is by communication, storytelling – Martin Egblewogbe

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Manthipe Moila

Manthipe Moila is a poet from Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds a BA Hons. in English Literature. Her work has been published in several online and print publications, including Tupelo Quarterly, New Contrast, Stirring, A Long House, 20.35 Africa, Agbowó, and Saranac Review.