The first poem I wrote was a haiku in third grade. It was about the season of fall. My first understanding of change. I had an opportunity to observe the power of language, of words and how it could capture and reimagine human experience. As I grow older my work has gradually become influenced by my academic career at Wesleyan University, working and learning under Poet,John Murillo, often dabbling in the autobiographical , speculative race-gender theorization, and Black history.
I hope for my poetry to push me into liminal spaces of self-realization, reality and history. I want to be pushed to think about my poetry as unadulterated, even at times, speculative. My poetry aims to be responsive, reflective and retrospective in the face of the histories of Black trauma I have come to know. My poems aim to formulate my own understanding of Black struggle and joy as non-linear. I want to tap into cultural modes of storytelling and this is done so by way of poetry for me.