August 20, 2018
The International Congress of Youth Voices: An Interview with Jamesha Caldwell
Earlier this month, young writers and activists convened in San Francisco for the inaugural International Congress of Youth Voices. Among those student delegates was 18-year-old “Baltimore-bred poet and storyteller” Jamesha […]
May 3, 2016
“Inundation of Texts”: Poets & Writers on Social Media
I think most poets and writers would agree that social media is both a blessing and a curse. While Facebook, Twitter and other social media brings us together across distances […]
February 12, 2016
Life of a Poem Part I: The First Line
For a long time, the poem I have wanted to write has been George Starbuck’s “Of Late.” The yearning to want to write what someone else has already written is […]
April 28, 2015
everywhere/everywhere/everywhere
I am in Baltimore and I have nothing to say. I have nothing to say because I am trying to listen. I am trying to listen to Ta-Nehisi Coates: Now, […]
April 24, 2015
a Chamber – to be Haunted –
“The only way to be honest is to be haunted,” says poet Joseph Lease, closing a panel exploring “Where Art & Activism Meet” on Saturday, April 11th, the final panel […]