I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of being ridiculed by others. - Frederick Douglass

The Stockton Center on Successful Aging (SCOSA) partnered with the Otto Bruyns Public Library of Northfield sponsor the ongoing senior poetry workshop series titled “A Tour of Poetry for Seniors.” Workshops are held one Saturday each month from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and include a lecture on poetry and reading from a visiting poet.... Continue Reading →

Read it here!  I'm reading at Charmington's, 7pm tonight, 2601 Howard Street, Baltimore

Gonna turn it on in the Charm City tomorrow night! Reading for the Writers & Words series at Charmington's, Tuesday, September 11th, 7pm | Charmington’s | 2601 Howard St, 21218 Come on by and see me!?

Come out and hear me read "Pink," my contribution to Peter Murphy's lovely anthology CHALLENGES FOR THE DELUSIONAL II, by Diode Editions, at the Rectangle Studio: 540 A Freeman Street, Orange, NJ.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Entrenched Racist Myths Male Authors Don't Know How to Write Women If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women  Roxanne Gay Answers Questions About Race and Writing  Human Rights Campaign website  

Read article here from Barrelhouse Mag  

I'll be giving at workshop at GrubStreet's Muse and the Marketplace on Saturday, April 7th. My talk will focus on writing and identity. More info here.     

Event details here. Philadelphia City Institute Free Library, 1905 Locust Street, 5:30pm Monday, January 29th Here's the Winter Issue of Philadelphia Stories.