I have been called an addictive giver, which is true. It seems to me everything is better when you share it, especially food. I have taken an interesting journey on my way to becoming a writer. By chance or love depending on who you ask, I have been exposed to much and encourage by so many.
Initially I have to say I am a dancer - motion has always been important to me and I have learned the other arts through the lenses of dance. I later was exposed to singing and became keenly aware of sound. And it seems I have forever been drawing or painting so visional is important to me.
My writing reflects my understanding of the rhythms in all the ARTs.
the urgency of recording my story of telling another’s story tales of neighbor or foe or sagas of unknown friends not strange but familiar these retellings listen you must carefully to understand why gleefully painful chronicles are spoken in still air pray that your pen does not run inkless on paper inscribe with urgency comrade history
I will list a few of the past great that influence me.
Anna Akhmatova, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemmingway, Lucille Clifton, Charles Dickerson, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, Franz Kafka, E. Lynn Harris, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, Edgar Allen Poe, Claude McKay and Paul Lawrence Dunbar.
Elijah, So happy to see you here. Looking forward to reading your work on Fictionaut. Judith
Elijah,
So happy to see you here. Looking forward to reading your work on Fictionaut. Judith