May 2012
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 21st
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May 21st
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My Letter to a Young Poet
Dear G, Thanks so much for reading my work and sharing your experiences with it. I am curious to know what your lesson plan was and more importantly — how you look at the world since. My inspiration comes from the world that surrounds me, whether on the stoop in front of my apartment or on the television screen. I also write for my daughter. As a young black woman, I was reminded that my...
May 14th
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May 3rd
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April 2012
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“i knew i’d have the task of teaching a young woman the laws of gravity: how the...”
– Mahogany L. Browne,  excerpted from her poem entitled retrospect: 1997.  published in the forthcoming book For Some Time Now: Performance Poets of New York City. photographs by Jonathan Weiskopf, edited by Jeanann Verlee, to be released on April 22, 2012 at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.  for more info,...
Apr 8th
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March 2012
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Mar 31st
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Mar 25th
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Mar 15th
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WatchWatch
AWP Week in Chicago. Penmanship Author performing at a Write Bloody Showcase.
Mar 12th
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Mar 5th
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February 2012
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Feb 28th
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Feb 27th
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 19th
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“so Bill Moyer/Rita Dove compiled a list of young poets to watch so here’s my...”
– even with my name spelled wrong… i feel loved :) (via bonafiderojas)
Feb 19th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 13th
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“Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.”
–  Oprah Winfrey
Feb 13th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 6th
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“She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of...”
– Gloria Naylor, Mama Day She must be talking about my girlfriends. (via caitsmeissner)
Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 4th
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January 2012
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“#dear twitter: “they appear to glory in their chains”
–  James Baldwin
Jan 31st
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Jan 27th
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“MY LIFE IS A TYPO”
Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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“#oh twitter: i have looked for love in the hands of men with no arms.”
–  @MoBrowne
Jan 22nd
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Jan 20th
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“I don’t have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people,...”
– Eubie Blake
Jan 20th
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“O, God. Let us love, like they love…”
–  Aracelis Girmay
Jan 19th
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“If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just...”
–  Sojourner Truth
Jan 18th
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and then
your skin, so close to the brittle bone; your hair is a ghost town haunted by his name; or maybe, just maybe, you are exorcising a demon — it smells like motown, it is an honest thing. here, you will know…everything the marrow desires.
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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hunger
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Jan 17th
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“Ask me a question…Poetry, Life, Writing, Love…Bad Girls Club, Love...”
Jan 16th
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pith
i am writing. waiting for my soul to catch up with my thoughts. i think in iambic pentameters, haiku and pantoum. but i live in brooklyn. spread my self across a man’s hands and wait for his prayers. wait for my soul to catch up with the prayers of man that has no god. my god…there is something beautiful about a silent prayer. the mouth turned up, the eyelids closed. the lips ...
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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