Coming up on August 8th I’ll be a guest on poet/publisher DuEwa Frazier‘s web radio show, Rhymes, Views & News. I first met DuEwa a few years ago when she accepted a couple of my poems for her anthology, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets and Emcees. The book went on to earn a nomination for an NAACP Image Award! Do check out more of DuEwa’s books from her press, LitNoire Publishing.
I’m working on a book of poems for children, and that means I spent most of yesterday sifting through dozens of haiku that I’ve been collecting for YEARS…not all are suitable for kids, and that means I need to head over to the garden today and write some new kid-friendly haiku. I want to have something I can share with children since most of my poetry is for teens or adults. I sometimes use haiku to help me overcome writer’s block—what do you do? Stop by Crazy Quilts to hear how Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich defines her mission as a writer.
Lastly, I’m getting a lot of love from Brooklyn this week! Many thanks to Nostrand Park for reviewing A Wish After Midnight! And if you’ve never heard me read before, check out Brooklyn the Borough–they’ve got video footage of my June reading at Franklin Park…
You read one of my favorite passages (in the first video about ghetto not equaling black).
Good luck on your poetry book 🙂
You are blowing up! Being interviewed online, on radio shows, doing guest posts, etc. I am so happy for you =D
thanks, Ari–of course, you got the ball rolling way back when…