May 2012
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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...
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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,...
March 2012
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AWP Week in Chicago. Penmanship Author performing at a Write Bloody Showcase.
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February 2012
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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)
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Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.
– Oprah Winfrey
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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.
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January 2012
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#dear twitter: “they appear to glory in their chains
– James Baldwin
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MY LIFE IS A TYPO
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Poems: Rosehips & Pied Piper (Audio) →
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#oh twitter: i have looked for love in the hands of men with no arms.
– @MoBrowne
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I don’t have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people,...
– Eubie Blake
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O, God. Let us love, like they love…
– Aracelis Girmay
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If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just...
– Sojourner Truth
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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.
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Ask me a question…Poetry, Life, Writing, Love…Bad Girls Club, Love...
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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
...
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