So those that know me well or for a long time know that I started out as a poet. Spoken word mostly. Use to perform in every city I moved to and sometimes I still dabble.
Since this is a writing blog and I still adore the art form, posting some of my favorites from Def Poetry Jam. This is what happens when art belongs to everyone. It’s a gift.
Icess is a writer, professor, and blogger. She is a graduate of Goddard College's MFA program. Her work has been published in Rabble Lit, Minerva Rising Literary Journal, and the Feminine Collective's anthology Notes from Humanity. Her nonfiction has appeared in Dear Hope, NBCNews.com, HuffPost and the Guardian. She is a recipient of the Owl of Minerva Award, a VONA/Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation alum, and is also a Kimbilio Fellow. She's currently working on her first novel.
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