How I Got to Coaching

A Few Cool Gifts WORD ECONOMY Gave Me

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Two Bucket-List Items in One

WORD ECONOMY and CREATIVITY got my poetry featured on MSNBC, which resulted in the piece being the de facto commencement address at the world’s leading college of art and design!​

SEE HOW FROM 0:08 TO 1:22  ➡️

Literary Opportunities

Book Cover with Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance title over a quartet of musicians

I authored the Zora Neale Hurston entry in this winner of the Choice Academic Title and Best History Book awards.

ESSENCE magazine sandwiched my poem “The Concerto of My Life: in B Sharp” between classics by two American literary greats, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes.

Poem where the first letter of each line comes together to spell Toni Morrison

Face-to-face, Nobel Laureate-Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison thanked me for this gift, dubbing it “perfect.” (Wow . . . Yep. THAT Toni Morrison.) It highlights every major theme of her body of work.

Face-to-face, Nobel laureate-Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison thanked me for this gift, dubbing it “perfect.” (Wow . . . Yep. THAT Toni Morrison.) It highlights every major theme of her body of work.