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Mine is not Arts for the sake of Arts. It is a revolutionary INSGINA carved into the artistic plaque of my DNA to speak FREEDOM of expression and then freedom after EXPRESSION. The footprints of my revolutionary walk are dipped in the paths of RESISTANCE.  My Ideological Swag -word is CREATIVITY. My spiritual birth mark is RESILIENCE. My revolutionary slogan is a nonviolent but a poetic fist of MASS INSTRUCTION. I am non-selfish believer. I adore to take on head bashing  challenges head on. I value  brew and  experiment positively   with ideas and there- after bring contentment to humanity. My triplet principles are INCLUSIVITY, DIVERSITY and EXCLUSIVITY. I write for the demoralized and dehumanized  to awaken their mental eyes to see candle lights of FREEDOM and like wise to realise that their ballot casts  are used fatten political hyenas and insatiable tyrannical systems in corrupt stinking corridors of power -through  my  insight- ful-torch bearing  hybrid  memoirs,  peasant hoe hardened skull grazing poetic verses, rhythm creamed short fiction mind raving  book reviews and nerve grinding political commentary.I chant RESISTANCE with my pen of DEFIANCE.   I roast dictatorial regimes  with metaphoric acid and disinfect our earth from cantankerous political fungi with ironic calamine lotion. I am a prophet baptizing unrepentant corruption fat cats with acidic spit of pen.   The bullets of my pen dig the truth hidden in the potbellies of propaganda zealots, extortion itching double chins of political pundits, fake election manifestos of revolutionary rejects and sloganeering palms of ideological imbeciles drunk with illicit propaganda cocaine.

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                                                          *INTERNATIONAL  SHORT RESUME.*

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MBIZO CHIRASHA is 2020 Freedom of Speech/Literary Arts Activism Culture Fellow at PEN-Zentrum Deutschland, Germany. Poet in Residence at the Fictional Café
(International publishing and literary digital space) USA . 2019 Sotambe
Festival Live Literature Hub and Poetry Café Curator. 2019 African
Fellow for the International Human Rights Art
Festival(https://ihraf.org/international-fellows ) , Essays
Contributor to Monk Art and Soul Magazine in United Kingdom .Arts
Features Writer at the International Cultural Weekly .Featured Writer
Poet Activist at The Poet A Day(https://jamiededes.com/). Core Team
Member and African Contributor to Bezine of Arts and
Humanities(https://thebezine.com/) in USA. Flash/Short Fiction Writer
for Squawk Back
Publication(http://www.thesquawkback.com/2020/01/mbizo.html).Contributing
Writer( Africa) to IHRAF
Publishes-https://ihraf.org/ihraf-publishes. African Contributor to the 2020 BlackWell Poetry Pamphlet of Oxford School of Poetry, UK. Hybrid Writings Contributor to Pulp-Pit Review, USA.The Originator of the
Zimbabwe We Want Poetry Campaign. Curator of MiomboPublishing Blog
Journal(https://miombopublishing.wordpress.com/). Founder and Chief
Editor of WOMAWORDS LITERARY PRESS(https://womawordsliterarypress.home.blog/about/) . Founder and Curator of the Brave
Voices Poetry Journal(https://bravevoicespress.home.blog/). Co-Editor of Street Voices Poetry triluangal
collection( English , African Languages and Germany) initiated by
Andreas Weiland in Germany. Poetry Contributor to AtunisPoetry.com in
Belgium. African Contributor to DemerPress International Poetry Book
Series in Netherlands. African Contributor to the World Poetry Almanac
Poetry Series in Mongolia. His latest 2019 collection of experimental
poetry A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT was released by Mwanaka Media and
Publishing and is both in print, on Amazon.com and at is featured at
African Books Collective. 2003 Young Literary Arts Delegate to the
Goteborg International Book Fair Sweden (SIDA AFRICAN PAVILION) .2009
Poet in Residence of the International Conference of African Culture
and Development (ICACD) in Ghana. 2009 Fellow to the inaugural UNESCO-
Africa Photo- Novel Publishers and Writers Training in Tanzania. 2015
Artist in Residence of the Shunguna Mutitima International Film and
Arts Festival in Livingstone, Zambia. A globally certified literary
arts influencer, Writer in Residence and Recipient of the EU-Horn of
Africa Defend Defenders Protection Fund Grant, Recipient of the Pen
Deutschland Exiled Writer Grant. He is an Arts for Peace and Human
Rights Catalyst, the Literary Arts Projects Curator, Poet, Writer,
publicist is published in more 200 spaces in print and online

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  CULTURAL  AND LITERARY ARTS FEATURES CHRONICLER  at CULTURAL WEEKLY-

At Cultural Weekly, we incite, inform and inspire. This is a place to talk about our creative culture with passion, perspective and analysis – and more words than “thumbs up” or “thumbs down.”  We draw attention to our cultural environment, illuminate it, and make it better through rich conversations.  We look at culture through the different lenses of media, money, technology and entertainment, always with prime focus on creativity in action.

Thursday morning, depending on your time zone.

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* Contributors links in  Cultural Weekly

-https://www.culturalweekly.com/jongwes-fistmugabe-magic-paradox/

-https://www.culturalweekly.com/a-throwback-zimbabwes-cracked-footprints-towards-the-coup-and-beyond/

-https://www.culturalweekly.com/poetivism-new-art-resistance-zimbabwe/

 

 

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   ESSAYS CONTRIBUTOR with Monk Arts and Soul Magazine

MONK 
Editor Sophie Lévy Burton
Contributing Editors Catherine Coldstream Corinna Ferros
Editor-in-Spirit Cornelius Mattey

MONK has slowly, gently teased and evolved over the last two years when I have mulled over with friends, through the seasons, over much wine, whether or not it’s worth doing. I hope that this first issue with its wealth and variety of creative works, proves that it is.

I suppose if MONK asks anything it is about the nature of inspiration and creativity – first there is nothing, then there is something, how does that happen? We are fascinated by the narratives between our spiritual and creative selves and our interior worlds,

*Writer link in Monk Magazine

-http://monk.gallery/essays/i-am-a-griot/

 

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POETRY ARTS ACTIVIST IN RESIDENCE

 Bezine, Arts and Humanities Magazine

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The Bardo Group Beguines

The focus of "The BeZine," a publication of The Bardo Group Beguines, is on sacred space (common ground) as it is expressed through the arts. Our work covers a range of topics: spirituality, life, death, personal experience, culture, current events, history, art, and photography and film. We share work here that is representative of universal human values however differently they might be expressed in our varied religions and cultures. We feel that our art and our Internet-facilitated social connection offer a means to see one another in our simple humanity, as brothers and sisters, and not as “other.” This is a space where we hope you’ll delight in learning how much you have in common with “other” peoples. We hope that your visits here will help you to love (respect) not fear. For more see our Info/Mission Statement Page.

 

 

Contributors links

-https://thebezine.com/2020/05/03/presidential-griot-by-mbizo-chirasha/

-https://thebezine.com/2020/04/06/mchirasha-iron/

-https://thebezine.com/2020/03/31/womawords-mbizo-interview/

-https://thebezine.com/2020/02/14/i-refuse-this-verdict/

- https://thebezine.com/2020/05/03/presidential-griot-by-mbizo-chirasha/?fbclid=IwAR0PyCImLovc2kf-_zexpjT7ijby-0PeCIuJUJmT_Adc9OFc8bE561e8oig

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LITERARY ARTS ACTIVISM DIPLOMATIE  at THE POET A DAY

A).Publisher, Jamie Dedes

Jamie Dedes.

I am an American writer and activist. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York (the Center of the Universe) and was raised by my mother and grandmother who were Lebanese and the Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., N.Y. In another lifetime, I was a columnist, a publicist, and an associate editor to a regional employment publication.  I also worked in social services as an employment counselor, case manager/superisor, career center manager, and ultimately as a planner in a government planning office with duties that included writing position papers, requisitions for proposals, and grant applications.  I’ve had to reinvent myself to accommodate chronic and catastrophic illness, which has me home bound, sometimes bed bound. The gift in this is time for literature, my primary passion, and social justice advocacy, my primary mission.

 

Writing Samples links

-https://jamiededes.com/2020/01/16/i-still-breath-the-wind-by-mbizo-chirasha-zimbabwean-poet-on-the-run/

-https://thebezine.com/2019/11/06/of-regimes-reruns-and-my-birth/

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CONTRIBUTING WRITER AND FELLOWSHIP ALUMNI at

 IHRAF PUBLISHES

 

A). IHRAF Publishes is a growing platform for writers to submit poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction, essays or any other format that comes from the heart, and focuses on social and activist themes. We base our work on the values of beauty, sincerity, vulnerability and engagement, and hope that these will be reflected in the submissions!

 

Writing Samples Links

-POETRY IS MY OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF MASS INSTRUCTIONBY MBIZO CHIRASHA, https://ihraf.org/ihraf-publishes/2019

WELCOME TO MY ISLAND

THRASHING OUT THE TRUTH,BY MBIZO CHIRASHA, https://ihraf.org/ihraf-publishes-2020

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THE 2020 POET IN RESIDENCE at The  Fictional Café

Welcome to the Fictional Café, a virtual coffee shop and literary magazine created especially for writers and artists. Caitlin, Jack, Mike, Ruth, Michael, Ruby, Honorah, Yong, Amanda and Jason, your Fictional Café baristas, welcome you! We hope you’ll love hanging out here with us, reading and talking about writing, commenting on art and photography, listening to original podcasts, and sharing your artistic passion with other members.

- https://www.fictionalcafe.com/dimples-of-haiti-poetry-by-mbizo-chirasha/

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7FEATURED POET at .DIOGEN Cultural Magazine

- http://diogenplus.weebly.com/mbizo-chirasha.html

 

8). A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT ( a pollitical protest  Collection)

Paperback – August 1, 2019

by Mbizo Chirasha (Author)

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His eagle eyes scan beyond the boundaries of his native Zimbabwe to right the crookedness of men with dubious ideals and reckless twists in lands abroad. Caressing his Lenovo mistress upon a night, he relives in recorded poesy, memories of victims of corruption and the false memoirs of looters of the land.  A Letter to the President, is a collection of his experimental poetry. Here is the man on a mission and with a mission. Words are slings and rocks on his quiver. Tireless and resilient; no ugliness is too ugly to stay below his radar. His weapon of choice is his pen. Dipped in acid, as he says, no thug escapes the roast of his laser beam that put them on the spot light.

- https://www.amazon.com/Letter-President-Mbizo-Chirasha/dp/0797495495

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 FEATURED POET at  ATUNIS GALAXY POETRY , Belgium

Poetët janë paraprijës të agimeve në zbardhje, janë muza dhe shpirti i ëndrrave shpresë, janë fryma dhe muzikaliteti i fjalës shenjtëruar, janë koloriti më i ndritshëm i qenësisë tonë qytetërim

- https://atunispoetry.com/2019/07/28/mbizo-chirasha-zimbabwe-2/

 

 

 

10).SHORT FICTION  WRITER  at SQUAWK BACK International  Webzine USA

- http://www.thesquawkback.com/2020/01/mbizo.html

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11.FEATURES CONTRIBUTOR at PULP-PIT Magazine , USA

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-https://medium.com/pulpmag.

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CO-WRITER of the WHISPERING WOES OF GANGES AND ZAMBEZI

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