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Anthology: Volume 8

The breadth, the ballad, the sonic structure of 20.35 Africa: Anthology of Contemporary Poetry Vol. VIII spans generations and defiantly plants itself in rich soiled pastures of won and lost kinship. Portals elevate rabbits to goddesses and cancers slow deaths to afterlives.

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Anena and Sarah

The Ideal Writing Life: Exploring our Relationship to Subject Matter, Writing Rituals, and the Academy | Ber Anena and Sarah Yanni

In the past few years, I’ve written less “about” my identity and more about larger questions concerning themes like legibility, history, gender, queerness, memory, and myth and my identity is simply informing that work, and the way the language unfolds. – Sarah Yanni

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Recommitment to the Unruliness of the Erotic – An Interview with Kemi Alabi

Against Heaven only troubles the idea of faith when it requires obedience to oppression and estrangement from the self. It pushed me, and hopefully the reader, to consider what liberation – and faith in one’s liberation – actually feels like in the body.

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Khayelihle Benghu

Khayelihle Benghu is a South African writer based in Johannesburg. She is the author of The Names We Carry, a collection of poems. Her work has appeared in Ake Review, Person of Interest, Metphrastics, Eyes on the Telescope, and Aloka, among other publications. Her writing explores memory, belonging, landscape, and the enduring connections between people and place.

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