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I have been working on Black Biography Boxes to sell. Originally, I was going to enter it in for a grant, but I do not think I will. The grant offers you a stipend of $1,500 to create 50 pieces to auction. I don’t know if I would be able to keep the sales from the auction. Therefore, I have decided to sell them on my own. I think that this could become a very big project and that I will be able to be successful in it. I have even created a youtube account for QuizzicalQards t

A friend from high school sent me a message on Facebook and said that I was on the cover of Lindenwood University’s paper. “What?” I asked. I did not know I was in the paper, but my mother and I drove to the school and sure enough, there I was. I do remember meeting Lindenwood students while I was helping to paint the mural for Hidden Treasures. The article covered the story about various muralists painting in Ferguson. I grew up in Ferguson and still went there often because

I recently published Let’s Speak! Kiswahili and I am proud of my accomplishment! Right now, I am in the stages of marketing it. So far, I believe that I have taken great steps in this goal of book promotion. The steps are basic, but they are the beginning to larger steps. I made a facebook page for the book, an About.Me page, a personal email and a Craigslist ad. I have also made fliers for it and now my mindset is to get it into bookstores. I will have to begin emailing peop

The vendor booths were free, which I was very grateful for. They had home cooked food which was also free and absolutely delicious. I ate about five pieces of cake and two helpings of spaghetti. Every table had red, black and green balloons, there was music playing and all sorts of vendors. There were boutique owners, bankers, hair product makers, jewelry makers and more. Items were raffled off and at the end, there was Zumba! I ended up selling a copy of Collective Face: a S

To celebrate Black History Month, my mentor conducted a program at Divoll Branch Library and titled it “An Honest Assessment.” It was a wonderful time of displaying visual art, sharing poetry and more. I displayed my work and read two sonnets. I had Collective Face: a Series of Quatrains on Community Building on display with several of my prints and my Phillis Wheatley box. My friend, who is a writer displayed her adult book for women and her children’s books about cats. Anot

TITLE Seasonal Poetry: Poems for Summer AUTHOR Selected by Robert Hull ILLUSTRATOR Annabel Spenceley SERIES EDITOR Catherine Ellis DESIGNER Ross George PUBLISHER Steck-Vaughn Company COPYRIGHT 1991 This book has been in my collection since I was a child and I have always loved it. As I mature, my appreciation for the collection grows more and more. It is a book filled with poems of quality from poets of different eras and backgrounds. It is representative of the moods of sum