Tag: poems

The FEMININE PRONOUN Series #14: #blackpoetsspeakout

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The #blackpoetsspeakout movement was started by Jericho Brown, Mahogany Brown, and Amanda Johnston in the wake of Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri. This episode finds me traveling to participate in a #blackpoetsspeakout reading in Columbia, Missouri. The reading featured poets from the...

The FEMININE PRONOUN Series #13: The Kids Are Alright!

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In this episode I prove that poetry works with seasoned adults, college aged readers and writers, and high school “novices.” I travel from Illinois’s capitol, where I read for the state legislators, and the Illinois Humanities administration, to McKendree University,  and I end with the brillian...

The FEMININE PRONOUN Series #11: Black Books, Black Children, & Black Love

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This episode of The Feminine Pronoun youtube blog series finds me sharing the power and resonance of Fannie Lou Hamer with a population she loved — children. The EYESEEME bookstore (the only black children’s bookstore in St. Louis) provided a welcoming space for the inquisitive crew and their men...

The FEMININE PRONOUN Youtube Vlog #10: Black Poetry & Black Church

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In this week’s episode of the Feminine Pronoun series, your intrepid poet (me:) signs books at New Life in Christ Interdenominational Church. I sold and signed copies of my book, *chop: a collection of kwansabas for fannie lou hammer*. It’s being carried in their book store, the LIFE CHANGER book...

The FEMININE PRONOUN Series #9: Act Local; Think Global

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In this episode I Skype into a classroom of gifted students at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.  I also support local businesses like Smiles by Design and Human Spaces and Afrosexology.  Along the way I manage to mother my magical brown babies and meet with the bad ass women in my comics...

The FEMININE PRONOUN Series: “Inaugural Episode”

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This is the first  of my “Feminine Pronoun” series where I take you with me around the St. Louis metropolitan area as I mother, teach, write, perform,  support the arts and other artists (especially artists of color and women), and generally try to move through the world doing no harm.  ...

The FEMININE PRONOUN SERIES #2: Traveling Through Illinois to Read My Poetry

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#2 in the FEMININE PRONOUN Series. This video is about Traveling Through Illinois to Read My Poetry. I am listed with Illinois Humanities as a “Road Scholar.” My book is available at via Argus House Press.      

The FEMININE PRONOUN Series #3 Do Catholics Do it Better?

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Do Catholic Universities host poets better?  Well, they do very well, thank you:)  In this episode I read at Lewis University near Chicago, and share my “unlit bomb” philosophy.  It’s #blackgirlmagic and some #blackboysorcery on full display!