Latest article has been published with Yes! Magazine

I am delighted to announce that my most recent article, Enunciating Power: Amanda Gorman and My Battle With Claiming My Voice, has just been published with Yes! Magazine.

Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman (Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

“In learning to vanquish her own demons through embodying language, Gorman was also preparing herself to battle ours. As she took the inaugural stage, each enunciation stopped the country in its tracks, her symphonic resonances briefly neutralizing the cacophony of lies and hate spewing from our nation’s center. Her “skinny, Black” body, enlivened by poetic language into a blockade against oppression.”