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Issue 7 | Front Page

Ipikai Web Team — Wed, 28 May 2025 10:41:52 +0000

This latest issue of the Ipikai Poetry Journal brings together poets who explore the many layers of grief with honesty and grace. Their words speak of loss—personal and shared—and the echoes it leaves behind. In mourning parents, friends, ancestors, and histories, the poets invite us to sit with the ache, reminding us that grief is many shades of many emotions.

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Ipikai Poetry Journal Issue Number 7: Shades of Grief

Ipikai Web Team — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:13:43 +0000

Grief is like the ocean; It comes in waves; ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.“ – Vicki Harrison When death happens in our culture, neighbors, relatives, friends come and mourn with the bereaved. What happens when the 3-4 days of… Read More »Ipikai Poetry Journal Issue Number 7: Shades of Grief

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Issue 6 | Front Page

Ipikai Web Team — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 20:40:45 +0000

This latest issue of the Ipikai Poetry Journal brings you emerging and established poets whose poetry comes from the depth of their hearts as they celebrate womanhood. In their diversity, the poems speak to the future.

Most of the words written by the poets about their mothers, lovers, sisters, friends, grandmothers, aunts and teachers echo the spoken words of actual women.

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Call for Submissions | Ipikai Poetry Journal Issue Number 6: Womanhood

Ipikai Web Team — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:34:22 +0000

‘And so our mothers and grandmothers have,more often than notanonymously handed on the creative spark,the seed of the flowerthey themselves never hoped to see or like a sealed letterthey could not plainly read.’ – Alice Walker The publication of the 6th issue of The Ipikai Poetry Journal comes just after the end of our celebration… Read More »Call for Submissions | Ipikai Poetry Journal Issue Number 6: Womanhood

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Issue 5 | Front Page

Ipikai Web Team — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 13:04:11 +0000

For this special issue of Ipikai, I received many-many wonderful poems. However, and this is crucial; I kept on recalling that it was going to be a special issue for the great late Zimbabwean writer, Dambudzo Marechera. The poems and the few vignettes selected for this issue had to be relevant one way or the other.

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Call for Submissions | Possibilities – Dambudzo Marechera Special Issue

Ipikai Web Team — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 22:45:16 +0000

To many Zimbabwean poets, Dambudzo Marechera needs no introduction. Born in Vengere township, Rusape, in 1952, he became an international literary celebrity after the success of his book The House of Hunger (1978), written after his expulsion from the University of Oxford in 1976. Upon his return to Harare in 1982, Marechera lived on the streets in what he dubbed ‘Hararean… Read More »Call for Submissions | Possibilities – Dambudzo Marechera Special Issue

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