It’s been a while since I’ve had a blog post to share but all the reasons are great. There have been so many exciting things happening! I've been back at Troy Makers Market with my paintings, jewelry and more. Over the weekend, I performed at the last ever Bea...
What does a regular day look like for me? I did a workshop at Hudson High School and among the questions asked, the students really wanted to know what a day looks like for a career poet. I answered by telling them about my week and all the poetry happenings in it i.e....
Today, I reached 90 days! I have to say I think this is my best ThreeSixtyFive year yet. If you've been following my posts on social media, you know how busy I've been and it's been incredibly rewarding. Today, is a low-key day. I'm sitting in Psychedelicatessan in dow...
This week I released the video for my poem, "for every Black Woman who been called Angry" and I am thrilled about it. It's been a journey from writing, recording, memorizing, performing, slamming to this video. The clips in the beginning show how relevant the stereotyp...
There is so much to say about the National Poetry Slam (NPS) this year. I'm not going to capture it all here so bear with me. The last time I went to NPS was 2012. It was the first time Nitty Gritty Slam ever went to Nationals. It blew my mind and broke my spirit all a...
I haven't blogged in a long time partly because I haven't had the time but also in part because stuff is happening at such a fast pace, I can't keep up with what it is I want to write about. My brain has been on over sensory mode. That makes it hard to sift through all...
Calling all poets!! It's that time a year poets rise up to the challenge of writing a poem every day of the month of April. Some will even share some of the poems on social media. It's a poetry boot camp of sorts. As we embark on yet another journey of 30 poems in 30 d...
I finally put the program from the memorial away. There is a black box in my home office, my art room as I call it, that has the words live, love, laugh written all over it. Photos, programs from shows, physical memories go in that box. The program from the memorial...
Last year around this time I decided to take on a challenge to write 52 essays for the year. It was spearheaded by the beautiful writer genius mind Vanessar Martir. At the time I was excited to try writing essays because I had a blog that was irregular and neglected....
I lost my happy. I was going through the motions pretending like I was fine. That word is dangerous. Fine. We hear it and say it so often without thinking but that word covers things and emotions that quite frankly are not fine. I was going to push through as far as I...
