POEMS, FRAGMENTS, creative Works

I think, dream aloud, reflect, comprehend, and conceptualize through poetry and the spoken word, my chosen medium. For me, poetry is deeply political and has never existed apart from thinking. Sometimes it gives language to what I understand but cannot yet explain, sometimes a poem arrives before I know what I am trying to say, and other times, it lets me remain with contradiction, memory, feeling, or a question without requiring that I resolve it too quickly.

The work gathered here spans different moments in my life and scholarship. Some pieces were written years before I had the theoretical language I carry now. I have chosen to keep them because I do not believe everything we know arrives first as theory, or that everything worth knowing must eventually become an argument.

These are poems, spoken words, fragments, and other creative works through which I have been thinking, becoming, and making sense of the worlds within and around me.