Tomorrow is the first official Sequoyah Day
BIPOC holidays are long over-due. Cherokee Nation recognizing October 15 as ‘Sequoyah Day’ 200 years after creation of Cherokee Syllabary
Can’t Get No Satisfaction
Maybe it’s pandemic recovery, or maybe it’s an overall dissatisfied malaise with the current social-paradigm we all seem to be mired into — but if you find yourself cruising the want ads, weighing your options, and buffing up your CV … Continued
October is Ripe for Poetry
When the Frost is on the GargoyleRon Whitehead National Beat Poet Laureate When the frost is on the gargoyles and the pumpkins are painted black and the bats dart all round me I stare into my final night and peer … Continued
To Autumn by John Keats
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit … Continued
Paging Major Tom . . .
Universal mala interstitial ether cells strung together breath by breath curling through helix uniting combining coalescing entwining Vein-like mapping the flow Chi igniting cells dividing weaving changing into ever the same but never the same Always new always different Always … Continued
No better time..
I wrote this poem in 2007 as part of a written social tasking project I participated in called 100 Words. I had to share when I came across today’s anniversary poem, it was just another moment of seeing with clarity … Continued
A little light
I am super stoked about this Little Window. I’ve been working on her for a long while. The little figure was something from my Aunt’s. She is hanging out in a bespoke shea butter tin. The moon is an antique … Continued
Cover Girl!
As a big fan of the Fox hit-series Sleepy Hollow, I was ecstatic to get the chance to chat it up with Lyndie Greenwood for the January issue of Jute Fashion Magazine. Jute was founded by fashion photographer Lynzi Judish and hair and … Continued