The mandate of the elected interim executive committee was to draft a constitution and submit it to the Registrar of Societies. The chairperson of the association, Comfort Exotic Ramatebele, said they had already submitted a constitution to the Registrar of Societies.

"We are waiting for registration. We believe we will be registered in a short time," Ramatebele said.

He said their constitution had a clause for amendment and he explained that when they meet with other stakeholders, they could always incorporate any proposed amendments. He expressed gratitude to the Department of Youth and Culture for all the support they accorded to the association. Ramatebele revealed that they also deployed their members around the country to inform the communities of the existence of the association.

Another project that the association was working on was to establish a database. Ramatebele said since the establishment of the association, people had been inquiring about what was happening. As a result, he said, they had registered potential members since there was a high interest in the association. He said they wanted to put all the existing groups under one umbrella. Ramatebele said they realised that people have been doing poetry to fulfil a passion. But they wanted this to change. He said they wanted to see people making a living from their talent.

Another ambition of the association is to revive Tswana poetry. "We do not only want to revive traditional poetry but also unearth upcoming talent," he said.

As the name of the association implies, it is not only about poetry. Ramatebele said story telling was also part of the association. He noted that story telling was a fading culture, which they wanted to revive. One of their plans was to instil a story telling culture into the society. Ramatebele said they wanted to re-play the old scenes when grand parents would sit with the children by the fireside in the evening and regale them with story telling. According to him, there was a message behind those stories. He said children learnt from those stories that it was wrong to do certain things. Ramatebele believed that story telling could be used to fight social ills.

"We will see how we can integrate story telling into the modern day society," he said. Ramatebele said they had established contacts with international poetry organisations. The idea behind this move was to organise cultural exchange programmes and also to share experiences. As the country is about to commemorate the World AIDS Day, plans are underway to deploy poets so that they could recite poems during the commemorations.