Cheswayo Mphanza

Cheswayo Mphanza’s work has been featured in the New England Review, Paris Review, the Hampden-Sydney Review, Lolwe, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Birdfeast. A finalist for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize and a recipient of the 2017 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers, his debut collection, The Rinehart Frames, won the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.

Two Poems

Two white men carrying briefcases walk in on a congressional meeting held by African leaders dressed in Western attire. Clapping at the president who resembles Léopold Senghor. He uses words like “revolutionary” and “independence” and they garner an applause.

  • Cheswayo Mphanza

Writing Our Ancestors

A recording of the launch event for Boston Review’s new literary anthology, Ancestors. Renowned writers read their poems, fiction, and more.

  • Adam McGee
  • Domenica Ruta
  • Tyehimba Jess
  • Ed Pavlić
  • Sonia Sanchez
  • Ivelisse Rodriguez
  • Cheswayo Mphanza
  • Yeoh Jo-Ann
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