The Life-Box Collection (A Poetic Short-Stack Trio Set-Life’s Challenges) Vol II
Life has a way of throwing us about the walls of it’s structure, bruising us from top to bottom, soothing us with lushness and lulling us into feeling so damn…
Art
Lauryn’s Taxes – A Poem
Featured earlier this year on my Tumblr page, this poem is inspired by songstress Lauryn Hill: An uncovering of self divorced of commitment broken down to the bones we see…
My Blog Lyric Fire: Uptown Artists Getting Gritty in the City
I went to the Harlem Art Crawl last month and shot some of the pieces. I’ve been so busy lately that I forgot to post them, so here are some…
My Blog Lyric Fire: Book to Binge On: “Women of a New Tribe” by Jerry Taliaferro
With all of the talk about “For Colored Girls” and the premiere of the BET special Black Girls Rock, I thought I’d pick a book for this Sunday’s Book Binge…
My Blog Lyric Fire: The Poetic Art Pairing Project-Piece #2-Justified & Vastly Jeweled
Installment two of The Poetic Art Pairing Project features the work of Itoro Udofia, a passionate artist who I met on the NetworkedBlogs space on Facebook. Itoro’s blog Thoughts of…
My Blog Lyric Fire: The Poetic Art Pairing Project – Piece #1-Floral Dissonance
The first paired piece in The Poetic Art Pairing Project, which features my poetry inspired by art, comes partly from San Francisco Bay artist Sytiva Sheehan who primarily uses acrylics…
My Blog – Lyric Fire: The Poetic Art Pairings Project (Coming soon!)
Paintings and drawings have always inspired my writing. Flashes of color, strokes of symmetry and languishes of artistic shapes on a page or canvas transports me into an immediate literary…
My Blog – Lyric Fire: Tattoos & Poetry
As writers, actors, painters, poets and singers, we are always looking for additional ways to express our creativity and love for our art. Tattoos are a great way to display…
My Blog: Lyric Fire: Looking Through Her Window
She stood and stared out the window. The room was empty save for a light green couch, an easel and some paint cans. One lone street light flickered on and…
My Blog: Lyric Fire: The Art of Networking in Harlem
I recently joined an amazing networking group in Harlem called Uptown Happenings Together which was started by the lovely Alba, who encourages Harlem residents to discover new things, places and…
My Blog – Lyric Fire: Art Consumption
I saw this while food shopping recently and had to pick it up. Oddly enough, I was thinking about an idea for a poem as I browsed the aisles. I…
Lyric Fire: Pen Meets Canvas
The world of art for me includes writing, music, paintings, photography, food, travel, nature and much more. My main form of creative expression involves the pen and I’m always inspired…