Mahogany L. Browne in Las Vegas (courtesy of C Bone Jones)
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Influences
Sounds Like
crack vials breaking beneath footsteps and wet lips caressing hot flesh, like cat calls between women and smirks between friends, the neighbors knowing glances and the envious grins, the bitch i was called last week and the mommy fighter i've been, the salisbury steak of poetry, full of protein always filling - i sound like the beginning. when you couldn't figure yourself out just quite or wondered how a stanza could commit suicide. i am the breathe before the storm - the plan that will provide - this sound be the oakland's hiss of a devilish angel resting in bedstuy...
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A collection of poems, stories and essays about the fallible woman, the sensitive girl-child and the fearless warrior, His Rib, offers an inside look at her story. The written works featured in this project includes women from both the literary field and the performance poetry circuit, creating a symbiotic kinship between the two art forms. After combing several continents, the women within these pages were found scribing folk tales in California, sonnets in New York, producing prose in London and breaking stereotypes with each stanza in Colorado, Texas and Canada. The result, a quilt weaved perfectly of compassion, self-respect, discipline, lust and hunger. Enjoy the crack and thunder of His Rib.
Ebele Ajogbe
E. Amato
Cristin Okeefe Aptowicz
Radhiyah Ayobami
Courtenay Aja Barton
Felice Belle
Tara Betts
Tamara Blue
Crystal Senter Brown
Mahogany L. Browne
Akua Doku
Eboni
Ebonyjanice
Jessica Elizabeth
Falu
Roanna Forman
Andrea Gibson
Madelyn Hatter
Nicole Homer
Bassey Ikpi
Crystal Irby
April Jones
Amanda Johnston
Erica Kamara
Rachel Kann
Abena Koomson
Marty Mcconnell
Derrica Mccullers
Gabriela Garcia Medina
Caitlin Meissner
Aja-Monet
Lilian Oben
Lynne Procope
LV
Nicole Sealey
Queen Sheba
Nikki Skies
Suzi Q. Smith
Sydnee Stewart
Heather Taylor
Kimberly Taylor
Thea
Imani Tolliver
Kim Trusty
Genevieve Van Cleve
Jeanann Verlee
Jaha Zainabu
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
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Peace Mo, Hope all is well...trying to get you in da spot as a feature so give me a holla...also I started a community for poets and would love for you to be a part...poetzrealm.com is the site so hit me up...Let's get that feature poppin as well...Blessings...E.
slidin thru showing love sister, they doin a tribute to shannon tonight at neo, think ima roll wit love to it. Will have her in my prayers, u stay well, how is ur foot OK??
k i know u getting ready for finals, cannot wait, u gon do da dam thang sensei
Peace, "One Love" N Blessings to you and the fam, "Strange Fruit" dat Poet
"When The Student Is Ready, The Teacher Will Appear" ancient chinese wisdom say or was that grasshopper on Kung Fu LOL
slidin thru early in deh morning, mourning that you were not here last night, kicked it wit talaam, LaLove's Spitfest was last night, antyways, u travelin like a mf my nukka, u n talaam the most travelingest poets I know.
Love you gurl and keep doing GOD's work, and inspiring women to be very they can be, flawed and all.
say sensei, just got bak frum jamrock, calabash fest was the bomb, we gots to go next year, i already got it planned, met some great chicas frum England there, they said they know you well, shirly, khadijah and sistagal radio, think ima take the plunge and go with some dubs frum jamrock later this month, so glad to see ur in tx in august, mi miss ya!! i had my first poetry hecklers, LOL i handled it like a true pupil of sensei, with grace, honor and humor
by the way, the pic is HOOOOTTTTTT!!! i love it, stay beautiful and keep doing your thang, you motivate me to keep on plowing thru and praying.
lol, thanks. I'm glad to hear that the word is spreading around. It wasnt just me though; I think the team effort is what made that performance special. The dancers and dynasty did thier thing. And working with a live band gives the whole thing a completely different feel you know? The sound is just so much more warm, and you can feel it more. I think for myself, I feel it was my best performance. And it was a good venue for networking also I have been reaping the benefits from that since then. Wish you could have made it though. I will have the videos up soon, but its not the same as the live sound.
