National Poetry Month 2010 was amazing! My 30 Days of Poetry, Jazz, and Earth Day Awareness celebration gave me a chance to rediscover some of my favorite poets and poems.…
My daily practice of posting audio blogs and six-word memoirs for my online campaign “30 Days of Poetry, Jazz, and Earth Day Awareness” has been happening on Twitter and Facebook. …
Click on the Cinchcast audio blog below to hear me read abolitionist and poet Frances E. W. Harper’s poem “Slave Auction.” I also read my poem “Ask the Troubadours Who…
Listen to me share Langston Hughes’ poem “In Time of Silver Rain” on April 12. I also read my poem “Wake Up Call #24″ from That Which Awakens Me. Today’s six-word memoir…
Listen to me share Lucille Clifton’s poem “Generations” on April 11. I also shared my poem “wake up call #9″ from That Which Awakens Me. My Sunday six-word memoir was: poetry.jazz. earth. weaving…
Click on the Cinchcast button below to hear me share Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem “Berrying.” I also share my poem “All Souls” from my book That Which Awakens Me. Read my six-word memoir for…
Greetings, It’s day 9 0f my 30 Days! So today I started my morning with yoga, meditation, and poetry by Sufi poet Rumi. Click on the Cinchcast audio blog to…
Photo Credit: http://njculibrary.wordpress.com/2008/04/page/2/ Greetings, It’s day 8 0f my online campaign “30 Days of Poetry, Jazz, and Earth Day Awareness.” It’s turning into quite a journey. I am falling back…
Greetings, Today, I listened to some of jazz singer Billie Holiday’s greatest hits while I practiced yoga. What a sweet jazzy treat! Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” led me to a book…
Greetings, Yesterday, I recorded an audio blog celebrating the sacred jazz music of Alice Coltrane and a new poetry anthology called Black Nature which features the poetry of Alice Dunbar…
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