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In a day full of blessings & communion I have one more beautiful moment that I’m honored to be a part of, this now-virtual Earth Day reading. Please join me & my fellow writers as we read pieces inspired by nature. Mine is an excerpt from my essay Midnight Run to Mexico. Thank you to …
Check out this poem/hip-hop video by English poet Kate Tempest. She blew me away with the music video idea for her poem and the quality production execution, LOVE IT! I only just heard about Kate today when reading the NY Times review of her books “Hold Your Own” and “Brand New Ancients” -dubbed a “story-poem” by reviewer …
immarkwithak: Montclair State University may have been controversial at CUPSI but I’ll always remember the poems that hit me in the stomach over the ones that I snapped a lot through. Ann Marie Iliana Manso really pushed the levels of comfort within the realm of art in this piece. It’s very real. This piece gave me goosebumps! …
Where: My brother’s rooftop in BK. When: Last Friday. So below is a poem I wrote for my Seminar in Literature & Writing class. We’ve been reading the work of poets Jane Kenyon and William Carlos Williams. The assignment (at least what I chose to do) was to write a poem, then to rewrite with …
Ahhh, the side effects of creativity happy hour! I was drawing on a styrofoam mannequin head while my partners in crime Mira & Tracy made tree branches and feathered the face, respectively. Our masterpiece is still a work in progress but it’s flowing!
This week I enjoyed two events: one a tribute to the late poet Lucille Clifton and the other, an evening wedding reception in an arboretum (botanical garden for trees) evoking a Gatsby-esque vibe. I attended the Lucille Clifton tribute on Thursday evening at the Central Branch of the Enoch Pratt Library (Baltimore’s public library system). …
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I am ecstatic! Today I walked over to Barnes & Noble during my lunch break and finally picked up Toure’s new book, “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?” I’m not exactly sure what ‘post-blackness ‘means just yet but rest assured I’ll know by later on tonight when I start this book. In celebration and anticipation I’ve been …
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