Tap-in Tuesday -Micro Offerings

Today centers contact around…Influences- Pillars, Pioneers, and or Poets -

In honor of National Poetry Month as it comes to a close-

Who are some of the Pillars, Pioneers, or Poets that have resonated with you throughout your poetic journey. Or what influences have shaped the poet that you are today.

A small trace.

A mark left without explanation.

What you offer can be brief.

A line.

An image.

An acknowledgment.

Leave it where attention happened to land.

Here's my offering:

My grandmother heavily influenced the activism in my poems especially growing up in the jim crow/civil rights era.

And of course reading the works of : Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, James Baldwin and Langston Hughes at an early age because my grandmother was also a school teacher.

Hip-hop help me mold the lyrisim/ and lyrical tools in my writing

Watching Def Poetry Jam, Battle Rap, and other poetry platforms as well and seeing how they commanded the stage.

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