RAPID FIRE STYLE! So, I agreed to participate in the Center on Contemporary Art's Marathon & Auction for the second year! If you read the post I wrote about my experience last year, you already know this will be a CHALLENGE. Myself and many other talented artists will be staying up for 24 hours to create pieces that will be auctioned off that same evening. It's an incredibly vulnerable process, and I'm ready but not reeeeeally ready! I'll be vending, for the second year as well, at the Seattle Urban Book Expo on the 25th of this month. If you haven't gotten your copy of Emergence, don't worry! I'll some for you ;-) Plus, the money I get from sales of my book help to fund my upcoming manuscri
Deference. Lemme tell you 'bout it. In my college sorority years I learned the term, although culturally I had been taught the practice long ago. So with this previous experience in mind, when I was asked by someone (who is my elder, but not old) to read a poem at an event she was orchestrating, I obliged. Even though the event was only a week or two away and I was already a little busy. She is a very intuition-based person, so if she felt lead to invite me then I was going to do what I could to be there. (Small plug for her organization, Wonder of Women, and the event host, Girl Trek!) Look- it was absolutely worth it. The day of the event I was scrambling to transition from a rehearsal for
