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Making Sanctuary: A Story Poem Series

Praying for promises So much power rest between your hands and your heart… This poem was birthed in 2006. Recollections of a woman in waiting, praying for promises, protection, perseverance. She gave me her story. Asked me to look up and around and take note of how women pray over their loved ones. How we […]

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For the Women

Performance Poet Artistic Director for ‘Babel’ performing at PhilaLIVE Being from the South, the area I grew up in is built on a former death camp. Some of y’all would call it a plantation. When we first moved there, various sections of the neighborhood would sprout vegetables in neighbors’ yards. Our section grew green onions […]