I wrote a book! Wow, that feels so amazing to proclaim. :D I feel like Hippolyta happily declaring her name in HBO's Lovecraft Country. Over the past few months, I've dropped hints and even shared selections of my poems over…
Inglewood, CA is getting a new book store! The Salt Eaters Bookstop is in the works and it’s geared toward being a unique and vital space for Black and POC people in the Los Angeles area. The Founder, Asha Grant,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNGveRf_Lwo Inside the Virtual Open Mic! Me Virtually Poeming! During April, National Poetry Month, I had the chance to be a part of a digital collective of poets, writers, and literary enthusiasts. MoAD, the Museum of African Diaspora, recently…
The Changing Womxn Collective just released their second issue of visual art, poetry, and pose. I had the wonderful opportunity to share my work! My poem “Afrofuture” was selected to feature in the online magazine’s second issue entitled, Black &…
The City We Became was an unexpected hit that brightened up my quarantine days! I knew it would be amazing since N.K. Jemisin, 3 time Hugo Award-Winning writer, penned the book, but it completely gripped me from start to finish.…
It's National Poetry Month! April is about sharing and appreciating poems, poets, and the love of writing. To celebrate, I'm sharing a poem from my upcoming poetry collection. During the last few months of 2019 and into the new year,…
It’s always wonderful to be recognized by your beloved community! Recently, I was spotlighted in WriteGirl’s impactful newsletter. The newsletter features some of my earliest thoughts about the writing program when I joined in high school! I’m wowed by my…
The artful documentary, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, is for any emerging writer or person of color wanting to know what living fearlessly looks like. It starts with a spectacular collage of textures, paper, and photos of the legendary…
My blog is now a year old and what a milestone it is! I remember celebrating 100 days of blogging but that hardly compares to coming full circle like this. Why Blogging Has Been So Significant Now, summertime is on…