WEALTH OF IDEAS

The current issue of Munyori features the following writers: Jennifer Armstrong, answering questions about Dambudzo Marechera Georgia Ann Banks-Martin, poetry Doeba Bropleh, with a short story entitled "Foya's Moon" NoViolet Mkha Bulawayo, with a short story entitled "The Watcher", which is already a big hit on the site. Memory Chirere, leading scholar on Zimbabwean literature, talks about the Dambudzo Marechera Celebration held at Oxford University in May Aleathia Drehmer, poetry Arabella Grayson, creative non-fiction Sushma Joshi, who was longlisted for the 2009 Frank O'Connor Short Story Award Salisu Ahmed Koki, a poet based in Kano, Nigeria Anish Kumar, poetry Joseph Masanga, a Congolese poet based in Hungary Colwin Mhlahlo, with a long poem tracing Zimbabwean history since 1980 Jennifer Pickering, Sacramento-based poet and artist Sunil Sharma, with a short short entitled "Cacti"

This blog will be featuring specials on poetry in April. I will be posting book reviews, poet interviews and more coverage of poetry events. I will be hosting a second Monday poetry reading at the Sacramento Poetry Center, featuring local poets Dennis Hock and Lisa Dominguez Abrahams, who are also my colleagues at Cosumnes River College. Lisa appeared in the premier issue of Munyori Literary Journal , back when it was Munyori Poetry Journal; you can see the interview I did with her by clicking on Lisa Dominguez Abraham . Dennis Hock has a book that came out last year, which I will try to review before the reading (so much stuff to review, but it's all good). So maybe on April 1st, I will feaure an interview with Sacramento poet and artist, Jennifer Pickering. I talked with her today and she thought the idea was fantastic. National Public Radio will be featuring her art at their Sac State Center. Plans are underway to interview Julia Connor, the current Sacramento Poet Laureate. I k...