Category: poetry

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry – which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just … Read more

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

As I got older, I really got into Tupac’s poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn’t poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet’s language at that point in history, and so it’s even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.