“I made myself a snowball,” Sandra presents to her son Mason, rehearsing a Shel Silverstein poem he will recite for his third-grade class....
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Know your Stage (Wilkes University)
It is the final round of the Phoenix Slam Poetry Championship, and the winner will go on to represent the city at the Individual World Poetry Slam. Two of my poems have already gone over well with the judges, so I step to the mic with confidence. I begin reciting a...
Destination: Antiracism–Building bonds through personal narrative (OHF Magazine, print edition)
It wasn’t too long ago, less than a year, I wanted to start writing essays about antiracism. But there seemed to be a roadblock—a massive, bright figurative billboard encouraging me to yield and consider that maybe I was buying into an idea for which I wasn’t suited....
When Good Intentions Go Bad (Our Human Family, Medium)
My first day of college presented an opportunity to graduate with more than just a degree. I was attending the welcome banquet for a scholarship program that had accepted me. As an Arizona boy new to southern California’s Azusa Pacific University, the buffet of...
Social media campaign for publisher, Books by Hippocampus
DETAILS: Tweets should use hashtag #digmemoir and #dinosaurs (and others as you see relevant) Some research (hashtagify.me) on hashtags (based on keywords in link to book presale and topical relevance) [Note: ‘+’: popularity stats higher than #dinosaurs; ‘-’: stats...
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