New members

Hi all,
 
I would like to welcome the following new members to our group of PoetrySA.net. First and foremost I must apologise for the delay to respond to your registration as a member and to extend my warm welcome to you all.
 
Welcome New Members:
  • Daniel Ronald Bogogolela
  • Jacques Riley
  • Katlego katdeep Mashimo
  • Nadine van der Walt
  • Sean Christopher Scales
  • Thokozani Vusumuzi Mbhamali
  • Mbali Khonjelwayo
PoetrySA. net Agenda for 2010:
  1. Poetry Blog for our member to access new resources and communicate directly
  2. Poem of the month competition
  3. Education of publishing your 1st poetry book
  4. Poetry podacst on Soweto Life: read Ike Macina's works here (contributors like you will be credited)
  5. How to copyright your work and secure exclusive rights against abuse

It is an honour to have people like you who have showed tremendous interest to this website, particularly your talent and interest in writing poetry. Our group is growing slowly and we hope to pack more information by creating a blog where every member can express their opnions and views directly. Direct access to the blog will be made available when the site is ready for your perusal.
 
Note:
The Blog will temporary suppliment the www.poetrysa.net website. PoetrySA.net website will still exist. The poetrySA blog will make it easy for members to have access the site and to communicate directly on site by just logging in using their email address supplied during registration as members of PoetrySA.net
 
If you have any questions regarding this please feel free to email the team:
 
PoetrySA.net
Team

 

Journey to the unknown

June 20, 2009


Mbali Khonjelwayo is currently one of our youngest writers and poets on this poetry Blog. We welcome and appreciate Mbali's contribution. When you listen to this poem above you begin to appreciate the power of words and how they uplift the human spirit.

This Girl has a powerful voice and talent in writing. I believe this poem was never edited and our PASA team chose it amongst a variety of poems to be post for this month's podcasting. Well done Mbali.

Cheers!!
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God don't hurt the same face twice

June 20, 2009


This podcast poem is presented by Ike M. we have been told he is writing and wanting to post at least once a month. Thank you for your submission Ike

PASA
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Members' manuscript review

June 15, 2009
Our publishers have received their 1st reveiw of our members manuscript for publishing. This member is part of our our team and we are very excited and anxious about this review. We have always wanted to get on board to get our own stuff member published someday.

"It has taken a long time to reach this stage" He said. We we are hoping when this venture of publshing our poetry portfolio becomes successful, it will set a tone for more work to follow.

So! we wish this member good luck, we would no...
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Only Poetry is covered for PASA now!

June 14, 2009
We have receive a couple of inquiries from potential poets and writers who were asking us what categories of writing we are going to cater for. The answer is clearly Poetry and Short Stories, for now because we are more comfortable with that subject matter.

Some people were asking if we will cover Religion and Cooking. I am sceptical to give a direct answer, but hope when our organization grows, we might have to look into it. Although our initial plan is to explore and invite poetry authors...


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Soweto faces

June 13, 2009


These are picutres of beautiful people of Soweto a kaleidoscope of talent and cultural diversity. Interesting place to be in if you're a tourist, but great if you're the citizen of S.A.

Cheers
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DDM business strategies

June 12, 2009


Above are business podcasts presented by Ike Macina and cover very interesting topics. We would like to assist anyone who is interest in becoming a member of the Poetry Association of South Africa. The intension is to promote your peoms and short stories before we can assist you publish a book. To solicit a market on the international front and gage the responses of people and comments posted on our BLOG.

This method of marketing has the potential of allow us evaluate which people are intere...
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Podcasts wanted

June 12, 2009
We are currently looking for poems to podcast on our blog. Included in this blog is the sample of how we intend to promote some of your poems or essays and stories to share with the rest of the world.

If you have any material available, just post a comment and let us know about it on our blog. We will make arrangements to get in touch with you for this purpose and plan a recording session with you. We have already done a few podcasts with Ike Macina, but these podcast cover the subject matter ...
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Formation of PASA

June 12, 2009

Poetry Association of South African is under formation in Johannesburg to represent the interest of poet/s, authors of short stories, essays and poems. The initiative is undertaken by ike macina with the view to encourage youth, young adults and adults who have been marginalised to take part in the development, skills transfer and networking of authors.

The main objectives being:

·      Promote the talent of poets and authors of poetry in South Africa

·      Promote poetry through organi...


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PASA (founder)


I. Macina South Africa's New Artistic Voice of Self Expression amongst the youth, young adults and adults alike. A space in time when individuals can find their place in history and a voice which becomes a vehicle for change to influence progress. As we bury the complacency of our human endevour, a move forward to pioneer a path of hope and to liberate conformity of a mindsets that are lacking in human spirit to seek victory over adversity. We use this platform to air our views and channel our writing.

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