What is Isicathulo

The year 2020 is one not so fondly to be remembered by many. That is when the global pandemic of COVID-19 hit the world. Coupled with that, a wave of protests arose in the United States of America after the killing of a Black man, George Floyd, by a white officer. The entire world had to deal with questioning their inner selves about how they treat each other racially. These events have been exhausting. Finding an outlet has been a preoccupation of many. Poetry is one of the greatest forms of expressive writing that can be used as therapy in times of crisis and can be healing to the person writing. In this chapter, the author showcases her original poetry written during these times of crisis. It is an autoethnographic study where she discusses poetry using relevant scholarship. The work will be relevant to teachers and students in upper secondary literature and college English classrooms as a tool on how to handle crisis through writing.