Currently seeking new opportunities. My primary areas of expertise and interest are composition, creative writing, literature, drama, and theatre.I am the founder and owner of Imani Projects and Productions. Via Imani, I am a freelance literary and performing artist-educator working in collaboration with writers, performers, students, and organizations as a poet, performer, instructor, workshop facilitator, tutor, acting coach, curator, and theatre director. I am also the founder of Kairos Poetry Cafe.As a well-known poet, singer, and performing artist in New York City's underground poetry and music scene--with extensive credits in theatre and the performing arts--I have been a featured performer in such venues as Kairos Poetry Cafe, the Bowery Poetry Club, Nomad's Choir, the Green Pavilion, the Brownstone Poets, the A.I.R. Gallery, the KGB Bar, the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, the Cornelia Street Cafe, the Yippie Museum Cafe, and the 5C Cultural Center and Cafe.My writing has been published in numerous journals and books, including the Journal of Cultural Studies, Nomad's Choir, and Sound Identities. I have performed on two cd's: Kairos Poetry Cafe Presents Selections of Poetry & Music (AB Film Productions) and Brant Lyon & Friends' Beauty Keeps Laying Its Sharp Knife Against Me (LogoChrysalis Productions). My first book of poetry is entitled Love During Wartime (Cengage); the second edition has been released via CreateSpace.com, a subsidiary of Amazon.com. Starseed: The Cosmic Sutra has also been released via CreateSpace.com. Cold Winter Days and Dark Nights of the Soul: The Madison Chronicles will be released in the winter.
Listed skills include Teaching, Public Speaking, Creative Writing, Literature, and 39 others.