Welcome to my website, a place where you can learn a bit about me. You are warmly invited to browse around and read some sample poems, listen to audio clips and watch video footage of me in performance. If you're inclined, drop me a line ~ let me know what you think of my work or perhaps commission a poem, or two, or three, or . . .

It was probably inevitable that I'd grow up to be a poet. My mother would recite poetry and sing "the old songs" (now called "the spirituals") while working around the house. One day when I was about 8 years old, I asked Mama about the verses and rhymes she often said to us. She pulled a book down from top of her bookshelf and handed it to me: it was an original 1913 edition of The Collected Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, which she'd won in a Paul Laurence Dunbar recitation contest when she was a girl. Mama then proceeded to recite Dunbar's Sympathy and In the Morning from memory! That's when I decided that one day I'd write a poem that someone like my mother would memorize and recite to her little girl. And I did.About Me

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Having lived my childhood dream to study poetry at the University of Denver, it's obvious that I needed to dream bigger dreams! My new dream is to share the stage with two or more of this country's greatest poets, such as Maya Angelou, Lucille Clifton and/or Nikki Giovanni ~ perhaps on the Oprah Winfrey Show ~ where the three of us would perform a choral reading of my work. I encourage anyone who is touched by my work to write to Oprah and ask her to help me make this new dream come true.