Spoken Word
"Hadithi njoo! Uwongo njoo! Utamu kolea!"
Swahili for: "Let the story come, let the embellishments come, let the sweetness be great."
Burn Scars
Spoken word poem performed during my residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. This is my most popular poem--having been sampled multiple times by various artists and workshopped in classrooms.
Creme of Nature Commercial
This is a commissioned poem for the hair brand Creme of Nature by Revlon for their #IamSupernatural campaign.
Febuary 2018
Essence Article on the commerical: https://www.essence.com/holidays/black-history-month/creme-nature-black-history-month-natural-hair-beauty-video/
Flight
This poem was written in a pen pal exhange with a fellow poet who was incarcerated at the time. This recording was made during my residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and features Jashun on drums and Marc A. Haynes on bass
Untitled
I wrote and recorded this poem during my residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.