Seventh Portland Poet Laureate
This is the most INCREDIBLE news I have received all year thus far! After going through a nomination process, making it top three...
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Judas and Suicide: A Night of Spoken Word & Visual Art with Mad Horse Theatre Company
I haven't had a spoken word show of this much importance since the PortFringe festival. I would love for you to sit with me virtually for...
CYWOC's Exhibition A
Join us Saturday, March 27th to honor the opening of Coded by Young Women of Color (CYWOC) founded by Janay Woodruff in Portland Maine!...
New Hampshire Theatre Project's Storytelling Festival
My self and four more New England based artists will be performing a set of stories using our respective artistic disciplines at The...
Writing Workshop with Art Amok Slam!
Tune in Tuesday, March 16th for a workshop on the representation of mental health in storytelling and poetry at 8 pm! More information to...
Our Podcast Dying/Laughing is Part of IFYC's Interfaith Innovation Fellows 2021
Mia Willis, a fellow poet and collaborator, and I are so honored to join these lovely humans in the Interfaith Youth Core's Interfaith...
We Would Love To Come Digitally to Your School!
Myles Bullen and I will be working together from March 2021 to December 2021 providing this! A Digital Interactive Experience for...
Arts Across America Performance
I am so grateful to Indigo Arts Alliance and Portland Ovations bringing artists of color together for this performance for The Kennedy...
Online Reading for ENOUGH!
Presidential Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco called this anthology “A powerful, prevalent, and unflinching collection of political protest...
Virtual Artist Chit Chat with Mad Horse
It’ll be great to work with Mad Horse Theatre Company again! Join us September 18th for a virtual chit chat with theater makers, dancers,...
Interfaith Art About Peace
Join us for an hour online September 25th! We’ll be sharing what peace means to us in our faith using music, dance, and poetry. Link to...
Page & Stage Workshop on Zoom!
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc and I will be facilitating a Page & Stage Poetry Workhsop through Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance (MWPA) via Zoom...
Double Feature with Slam Free Or Die Online
Since we're unable to meet at Stark Brewing Company, I hope you can join us online with Slam Free or Die! Room will open at 7:40pm, and...
Boston Poetry Slam Online Feature
Since we're unable to meet at The Cantab Lounge, I hope you can join us this Wednesday (tomorrow) for an extremely online edition of...
Facebook Live Spoken Word Reading
This will be my first time doing a showcase of sorts online! One of the things I can appreciate about this time right now is the ability...
Sunday Workshops Going Virtual!
Weekly Sunday writing workshop from 10:30 am to 11:30 am will be virtual for the time being. So, you'll need this info to log on: Join...
Poetry & Pizza at UNE!
This is an event open to the public, and I highly appreciate UNE's undergraduate social work club in Biddeford for having me tomorrow...
Renegade Writers at Portland Ballet
The last time I had the opportunity to write a group piece was for a slam, and brings me so much joy to perform a group piece with the...
A Garden of Black Joy Release and Reading
Myself and fellow contributors will be reading at the release event for A Garden of Black Joy, an anthology of black poets from all over...
Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance Chapbook Finalist
Earlier this month, I found out that my chapbook When Speaking to an Extraterrestrial was one of my three manuscript submissions selected...
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