If you’ve not yet met her, you’ll soon find out how this Brooklyn, New York native has the ability to leave her mark at the core of each and every venture she pursues. Angelic Kreations has proven herself as a gifted teaching & performance artist, poet, public/motivational speaker, actress, host & model. She began her career at the age of thirteen and has since developed a resume exemplary of a well-polished professional. With a host of experience in performances, public speaking & television Angelic is definitely no stranger to the camera. Always ready for work and willing to travel local or international to get the job done. Karen has served as the host of the first Jazz festival in Trinidad and Tobago, produced poetry and theater events in Los Angeles California, New York, New Jersey, and Michigan along with making television appearances on the Dexter's Lab show and other sitcoms.

In 2011 Phi Ro Pi awarded her a National Champion in Poetry. In 2013 her work she became a National finalist oratory speaker. (Her topic “Preserve Our Legacy”) Her poetry performance held the top forty record at Eastern Michigan’s University’s where she received her Bachelors & Masters in Communications and Performance Studies. To date she has recruited and trained hundreds of students in performance studies and higher education.

In late 2012 she put her career on hold to relocate back to NYC to care for her Mother and Uncle in NYC. In 2016 she was employed by the Department of Education as Substance Abuse Prevention & Intervention Specialist overseeing four schools where she received several accolades & certifications. As founder Angelic Kreations Inc. she has been teaching & performing poetry for over ten years. Implementing a public speaking poetry & pros program into organizations, nonprofits & schools both private & public. In 2017 students were given the opportunity to publish their poetic words in the book series available her website AngelicKreations.Com offers her audio poems, health & hygiene products are available online. Additionally she offers "Poetry On Demand" services writing, performing & delivering original poems that inspire, cultivate & educate people on past & present achievements.

Her Passion & love for working with the youth, teaching & performing extends beyond the classroom as she still finds the time to give back to her community, working in the field of healing & education through Edutainent. After the devastation of the CORONA virus along with its effects on her business Angelic was determined to keep her business alive. With a keen business sense Angelic Kreations currently helps people ZOOM their way to success with online virtual video remote training, through public speaking poetry &. Pros. Currently meetings are held on Wednesdays 6-7pm & Saturday's 12-1pm while currently working on her poetic album featuring The Harlem Diva & the late great Shamello Durant. Through hard work, commitment & dedication Angelic Kreations has been able to follow her divine path by staying grounded and humbled in the will of the creator.

Ms. Karen Yelverton

Angelic Kreations Inc.

(678) 612-9877 (cell)

MISSION: Angelic Kreations Poetry on Demand specializes in writing book series, performing original poems and programming that inspire cultivate & educate people on how to achieve their “Visions Dreams and Goals”

VISION: To Celebrate Living while we are still here. To empower people to share their unique story in order to help 7 inspire others along life’s journey.

Give a Lasting & Loving gift of a lifetime (all year round / any time of the year) "Poetry On Demand"

With a few questions, Angelic Kreation

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Slangston Hughes is a National Slam Champion based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Director of Youth Poetry at Dew More Baltimore and lead coach of the world champion (2016 & 2018) Baltimore City Youth Poetry Team. His work has been published in the Poets ‘ America anthology via the Kratz Creative Writing Center. Slangston published his first collaborative literary work “Writers’ Alchemy with prosaist Devlon E. Waddell as part of E.M.B.O.D.Y.  In 2017 Slangston Hughes (Victor Frantz Rodgers 2nd) released a collection of his poetry that spans nearly the past 2 decades. "Slanguage Arts & Griot Glimpses" is both a chronicling of one individual’s growth as a writer over a 15 year period (2002-2017) of poetic evolution as well as a record of some of this era’s most pressing most pressing sociopolitical issues and happenings as witnessed and responded to in arguably some of the most radical and profoundly truthful incantations ever written down via the medium of poetry in a manner where the political and personal merge. Slanguage Arts & Griot Glimpses is very much "a research guide for the soul." In addition, founder of Speak Out: Slammageddon. Slangston was also a member of the Slammageddon Baltimore slam team that won the 2016 National Poetry Slam and Southern Fried Slam in in 2017  2018 & 2019 As well as Ink Slam 2019

"I have told him that if he was around when the Last Poets first started he could've rolled with us!" -Umar Bin Hassan of The Last Poets...

-- 

Victor Rodgers
(Slangston Hughes)
Artistic Coordinator 
DewMore Baltimore

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Poet Janet Dawson 

Has been writing poetry since she was 14 years old. With over 15 years of performing she's known for her heart felt words and fearless blunt attitude. She's the Author of 4 books including a ebook. she's host, co host and performed in well over 50 shows. Local and nationally.  

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BIO

Ibrahim Asad Siddiq is an artist, community organizer and educator that uses his art as a vehicle for activism and social change. In addition to performing, he is the artistic director of The Free Art Project,  A grassroots arts and educational program focused on empowering youth with tools to escape the pitfalls of dire societal circumstances to create healthy and engaging opportunities. 


These programs are designed to alter the course of the school-to-prison pipeline and opportunity gap that captures too many of our brilliant youth.

His long-term goal is to  grow  the  current space into a recreational community hub that functions as a self-sustaining space and expands throughout the boroughs of New York metro area.  A fully equipped art center, incubator and community hub designed to cultivate creativity and develop the minds of future leaders, artists, inventors, entrepreneurs, and innovators

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About Georgia ME

Atlanta, GA

You know it's Tamika Harper by the sound of her shoes.

Coming down the stairs of her mother's home on Westmoor Drive on Atlanta's west side, they make a big noise. Compared with the black leather Roman sandal-stilettos that laced halfway up her legs when she made her Broadway debut last year, these tan strap pumps are elfin. But they've still got drama.

So when Harper, who uses the stage name Georgia Me, finally appears in the room, she fills it as certainly as the overstuffed floral chairs and the bookcase of family photographs behind her. Her lips glisten. Her dress is paisley. Her hair spills onto her shoulders in Rapunzel-like corkscrews.

"My look sells me more than anything else in the world," says the 27-year-old star of "Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam," which arrives at the Fox Theatre on Thursday, "because people think: 'How dare this big black girl think she's beautiful!?' And then on top of that, I am!"

After years of self-doubt, Harper, who stands 5-feet-10 and weighs more than 200 pounds, seems to have come to terms with her size. In poems like "Full Figure Potential: A fat girls blues" and "Nig-gods," both of which are showcased in the Tony Award-winning "Def Poetry Jam," the Booker T. Washington High School graduate and self-described "ghetto belle from the 'hood" sings a song of herself --- with no apologies.

"GA Me," or Georgia Me, is an acronym for her life's credo: "God's apostle, moving everyone."

Since her conversion to poetry in 1998, the Bankhead Highway gadabout has played the Aspen Comedy Festival, toured Europe with "Def Poetry Jam" and performed on the 2003 Tony Awards program. She has done readings with Danny Glover, Phylicia Rashad and Jeffrey Wright and, while in Scotland with "Def Poetry," was invited to appear in "The Vagina Monologues." Her work has just been published in "Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway" (Atria, $20), a book of poems and interviews.

She was more recently featured in The New Word Order Word Warriors Tour
June 21st through August 6th 2008.

September catch The Queen of Spoken Word in an additional 30 performances nationwide with Treasures Entertainment. Dubbed The Largest Spoken Word tour in America. Produced by Prysmatic Dreams and costaring
Max Parthas & Tribal Raine. Collectivelly recognized as Maximmum Impact

Next Harper wants to pursue a career in TV, film and writing --- and dreams of running for political office. "I'm like Arnold Schwarzenegger," she says. "Only I can speak English."

A major force in Atlanta's vibrant spoken-word scene, making appearing at places like Club 112. In 2001, this fan of Nikki Giovanni and Goodie Mob was named Poetry Slam Champion of Atlanta.

After appearing three times on "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry," HBO's Peabody Award-winning spoken-word series, Harper joined the 10-member company that took the show to Broadway. The event got rave reviews and signaled that this urban-incubated, hip-hop-influenced poetry style was finally gaining acceptance as a legitimate art form. A visceral combination of the personal and the political, of the anger of alienation and the urgent rush of empowerment, "Def Poetry Jam on Broadway" meant that the world was finally listening to folks like Georgia Me.

"I gave my all, and poetry gave me what it could give," she says. "It's my weapon and it's my wealth."

"I don't do a poetry project without calling her first," says producer Stan Lathan, who partners with Simmons on the HBO and Broadway shows. "There are two or three poets that are the go-to poets, and she's absolutely one of them," says Lathan, a prominent TV director whose credits include the pilots for "Martin" and "Moesha." "I can't imagine a 'Def Poetry' sho

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Biography and career[edit]

Grant was born in New York City and raised in the Bronx.[2] His father, Samuel, was a locksmith and carpenter at Montefiore Hospital, and his mother, Theresa (née Maxwell), was a teacher.[3] He first gained widespread attention as a poet and performer when he was featured in the documentary SlamNation, which followed him and the other poets of 1996 Nuyorican Poetry Slam Team (Saul Williams, Beau Sia and Jessica Care Moore) as they competed at the 1996 National Poetry Slam.[4]

Grant took the name "muMs" when he was 20 and performing in a rap group. Due to retaining traces of a childhood lisp, a friend suggested he call himself “Mumbles”, which Grant shortened to "muMs", as an acronym for "manipulator under Manipulation shhhhhhh!"[3]

In the book Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, author Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz wrote of muMs's time in slam poetry, noting his writing "was street poetry at its purest. Thoughtful, precise but not without humor, his work spoke honestly about the life he and his friends and family lived and the city that he loved.[5]"

muMs performed his poetry on seasons 2, 3 and 4 of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, and was a member of New York City's LAByrinth Theater Company. In October 2007, muMs played a role in A View from 151st Street, a play about people trying to reconstruct their lives after gunfire.[6] In September 2014, muMs wrote and performed "A Sucker Emcee", hip-hop and slam poetry, based on his personal recollections.[7] In February 2015, muMs' play, titled "Paradox of the Urban Cliché", about a young couple living in Harlem, was performed at the Wild Project as part of the Poetic Theater Productions's Poetic License festival.[8] In February 2015, muMs played a role in "The Insurgents", a play about rage among the free, brave, and disenfranchised, produced by LAByrinth Theater Company.[9]

Grant guest-starred in the 2016 Netflix series Luke Cage as Reggie "Squabbles", and was featured as a recurring character, Ricardo, on three episodes of Louis C.K.'s web series Horace and Pete.[citation nee

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BIO

Carvens Lissaint is a Haitian American International award-winning poet, actor, and singer. He currently stars in the Tony Award winning musical HAMILTON as George Washington at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood, CA. Carvens was selected as an honoree by Blavity & Shadow And Act at the first annual Shadow And Act RISING Star Awards, highlighting the top black actors/actress, creatives & executives in the industry. He has graced stages across the United States, United Kingdom and The Caribbean. Featured on TED Youth, Sundance Film Festival, The United States Green Build Council in Arizona, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on Broadway at The New Amsterdam Theater & the Off-Broadway Hip-Hop Theater Festival, debuting his one man show “Walk” at the Ohio Theater. He was on the second, third, & fifth seasons of the hit television series “Verses and Flow” on TV One and has opened for the likes of John Leguzizamo, Common, Luke James and Jill Scott. A graduate of The American Academy for Dramatic Arts and St. John’s University with degrees in Acting/Dramatic Arts for Film & Television and holds an MFA from NYU Tisch School of The Arts Graduate Acting Program. He gives all glory and honor to Jesus. 

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Ayanna McNeill Bio
 
 A native of “Pre-gentrified” Bed-Stuy, Ayanna McNeill grew up being exposed to the beauty of storytelling and the power of freeing people’s minds through writing. At the age of twelve, she fell in love with poetry and began writing. 

 

The daughter of an educator, Ayanna learned the importance of education and the responsibility of sharing knowledge early in life. She attributes her upbringing to why she writes, and why she chose to become an educator and mental health counselor. She graduated from the nation’s oldest historically black university, Lincoln University PA in 2008. She then earned her Master’s from Alfred University in 2010.
 
 

As a poet, spoken word performer and cultural curator, Ayanna has been called, “Harriet Returned.” She created a LLC to promote her various artistic projects with the same name. Ayanna has performed on stage, television and radio alongside seasoned artists such as Saul Williams and Abiodun Oyewole of ‘The Last Poets’. Ayanna released her first collection of poetry Before There Were Guns There Were Gods in 2010. 
 
 

Currently, she is a member of Power in the Pen Writing Workshop and completing a trilogy of fictional suspense novels titled, Half of What You See: The Scars of Love, None of What You Hear: Redemption and Repairs, and Everything You Feel: When Trauma Creates Mayhem. Ayanna is also a Motivational Speaker in the process of creating a collection of motivational daily messages to be released later this year https://linktr.ee/HarrietReturned

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Activist.:.Host.:.Poet.:.Writer.:. 

 

The Poet Rosegold

 

Jennifer K. Yancey, a.k.a. The Poet Rosegold, hails from “the real Gotham City.” The Bronx, New York native started writing poetry at 15 as a more creative way of communicating to the world. She joined the U.S. Army eight years later, having served as a journalist, understood the power of the written word. Rosegold retired (20 years, eight assignments and three deployments later) in 2015. Rosegold moved to Colorado Springs shortly afterward, discovering a large spoken-word community that soon rekindled her relationship with the pen and helped her realize the power of her own voice.

 

She jokingly refers to her work as “incendiary Redbone poetry,” highlighting the injustices tarnishing the American landscape; spirituality; love/sex; toxic relationships; mental health; and (past) life in the military. Her platform serves as a voice for those who don’t feel they have a voice, those who feel their voices aren’t “strong enough,” as well as those who are afraid to speak up and speak out. 

 

FB: @RosegoldPoet 

IG: @thepoetrosegold

E: [email protected]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highlight performance:

 

·      TEDx Colorado Springs 2019

 

 

Published in the Following Works:

 

·      The Cuddy Family Foundation For Veterans Poetry Journal, Volume Two (2021)

·      The Cuddy Family Foundation For Veterans Poetry Journal, Volume One (2021)

·      Love Letters to Gaia (2021)

·      Poet Speak Magazine, Issue #40 (2021)

·      Between a Laugh and a Tear (1991)

 

 

Community Engagements:

 

·      Juneteenth Celebration at COATI Uprise

·      2nd Annual Juneteenth, Pride and Black Music Month Story Time

·      Children of Gaia presents One Year in Solidarity: Candlelight Vigil in Honor of George Floyd

·      One on Poetry (Alumni Edition) hosted by William Washington

·      World Poetry Day at COATI Uprise

·      AAHGSCS presents Celebrating Women’s History Month: Poetry by Women of Color

·      Boss Babe Networking at COATI Uprise

·      Meet the World Image Solutions Black History Month Literary Weekend

·      La Bodega Gallery presents PALABRA: An Evening of Poetry

·      Pikes Peak Lodge #5 presents Sixth Annual Dr. Nathaniel Granger Jr. Celebration of Black History

·      Ethically Immoral Podcast, hosted by Mike Payne

·      One On Poetry hosted by William Washington

·      Kamal Speaks and the 1,000 Word Family All-Star Weekend Spoken Word Champs

·      Mr. Speaker Ink Presents Zoom Serenade Sessions: What Women Want

·      The Art of Seduction Open Mic hosted by Tantalizing Productions Inc.

·      Got Love? Artist, Musician and Vendor Showcase

·      CS Indy voting campaign project

·      Respect My Vote! at Van Diest Park

·      Poetry 719 Open Mic, Black Lives Create Fest

·      Lil Miss Story Hour, Black Lives Create Fest

·      #IAmVanessaGuillen Rally for Awareness at Acacia Park

·      What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? at COS City Hall

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Jashua Sa-Ra is a father, an award-winning performance poet, author, playwright, event producer, host, lecturer, actor, educator, publisher, graphic designer, percussionist, and healer. It’s a lot to say! So, true to his unique style, Jashua created the term “communications artist” to describe the full scope of his work.  He brings a memorable and lively interactivity to audiences, born from genuinely connecting with participants. Community is the obvious intent every time he gets in front of a crowd or classroom.

Jashua launched his exciting language arts career by creating and hosting a legendary open mic in West Palm Beach, FL called SpeakEasy that ran weekly for five years. With the collective that gathered there, he became the founder of a traveling performance troupe, Sol Griots, that used poetry, dance, singing, rap and musicians to create community sharing spaces. After touring the country promoting a spoken word CD, producing several other successful events, becoming Grand Slam Champion multiple times in his region, and winning the first Best Poet of Palm Beach Award, Jashua moved to NYC. He was quickly recognized as a valuable contributor, and began hosting the most popular open mic series in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Nights, after being there only two months. He hosted that event for several years, as well as others and became known throughout NYC as one of the best hosts in the city, and by many accounts, the best!

As an active artist in his community, he has produced and/or hosted several critically acclaimed performance events, including open mic venues, competition showcases, slams, and a variety of special events. His ultimate creativity and community love was expressed through the festival he created in Brooklyn, NY called The Lyricalympics. It’s a competition-based event, with $500 prizes in the categories of poetry, hip hop, and comedy. It also includes headlining performers, workshops, language competitions, venue village (an area where various performance venues had booths and facilitated impromptu ciphers) and activity booths. Jashua has also co-written a critically acclaimed play entitled, “You Are Who You Eat,” that was produced by Green Earth Poetry Theater in 2018.

As an educator, Jashua has worked in the classroom, as a trainer and mentor to other educators, as a guest lecturer, and as a workshop facilitator. He creates arts-infusion curricula, that are implemented as stand alone lessons or integrated into classroom and common core objectives. He has been the Artistic Coordinator of the Kravis Center Annual Spring Residency for over ten years, being asked to retain the position even after moving to NY. He recently began publishing the math book series “I Am Mathematics,” and has released the first three books.

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