Drag! O! The desire and attempt to make words ryhme.
“It’s a drag to make words rhyme sometimes. Sometimes your soul has words conceived in pure sin aching to make it to the heaven that is your paper and pencil…”—Drag, a poem by Esperance Luvindao.
#Khariro Mîrosa? All it takes is one disastrous word—a Khoekhoegowab poem.
The things a disastrous word can do—a Khoekhoegowab poem by Verushcka Garises.
City Heights A view from the height of one’s lowest point.
In Mohammed Shehu’s “City Heights” the high-rises of urban capitalism provide a view of one’s lowest point.
Activism Beyond Wokeness In the fight to raise our collective consciousness even one step back is one too many—an activist's manifesto.
“In the fight to raise our collective consciousness even one step back is one too many.”—Wokeness Beyond Activism, an essay by Jamil F. Khan.
Let Us A brief treatise, a shifting gaze.
A brief treatise of action, a shifting gaze—Let Us, a poem by Pedro Vorster.
Night Watch Sunset to sunrise, a photographer’s sentry duty watching and waiting for the light.
“There is an obsession with sunset and sunrise that I am not immune to as a visual artist. And it is something more than the parading colours.”—Night Watch, photographs by Hallie Haller.
Embalming The Past Take the horror and turn it into art, into poetry.
In Pedro Vorster’s poem, art is made from the the horrors of history.
Cape Town Tourist Mid-air, two motions, two forms of time—spinning, but standing still.
“Mid-air, two motions, two forms of time—spinning, but standing still.”—Cape Town Tourist, a poem by Michael Kelleher.
House Girl How does it feel to be waiting?
“In the days after, Maman put word out that we were looking for a new house girl. A God-fearing house girl…”— House Girl by Bongani Kona.