Day 2! We were so pleased to have Mahogany Browne at our Poetry with a Punch event this year. Here is her performance of ‘Black Girl Magic’.
Watch here: youtu.be/LOfKNV8r9cs
#Poetry #MahoganyBrowne #BradfordLitFest #Poems #Poets #12DaysofPoetry
“my smile don’t waver
I’ve become too good at snatching back what is mine(s)” — #mahoganybrowne
Photo by @markpoucherphotography .
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#amwriting #rauschenbergresidency #flowers https://ift.tt/2T1JtQD
“I been a black girl flag / I pledge allegiance to myself / everyday”
#blackgirlmagic #mahoganybrowne #selflove #selfcareisrevolutionary https://ift.tt/2G21w2N
“She already knows/ Like a body of water must know / How to bring a city to its feet / or feed the crops for a family”
#amwriting #mahoganybrowne #poetry #blackgirlmagic #jamaica #jamrock2018 https://ift.tt/2Q9ZGSf
On my back.
#oakland #blackgirlmagic #itscoldouthurr #readyforbattle #mahoganybrowne https://ift.tt/2r6ULT1
“I am not my mistakes / I am not only what I survived / I am because I survived. “ — #mahoganybrowne
Photo by @shanellegabriel
#amwriting #blackgirlmagic #wellreadblackgirl #bestiebrunch https://ift.tt/2FUcDuX
“May we learn to trust ourselves enough with the wreckage” — #MahoganyBrowne
#amwriting #curaçao #blackgirlmagic #poetsofinstagram https://ift.tt/2vccpY6
“Today, no one has left the earth violent / yet / No one has lost a war / yet / Only breath & here & the sun / Amen” — #MahoganyBrowne #curaçao #sunkissed #blackgirlmagic https://ift.tt/2n15mwX
“Sweet Waters / How you host all them bodies in your belly?”
— #MahoganyBrowne
#blackgirlmagic #poetsofinstagram #amwriting #sweetwaters https://ift.tt/2JMGMJc
“This was the closest time I ever came to becoming / a woman with a number for a name”
#MahoganyBrowne #blackgirlmagic #poetsofinstagram #amwriting #louvre #paris #poetry https://ift.tt/2L502qY
“what a woman’s body will do to itself to be truly free” — #MahoganyBrowne #amwriting #france https://ift.tt/2KZgBAg
“I smile like I like pain / Cause I know it’s the only thing coming for me.” — #mahoganybrowne https://ift.tt/2KCI9PM
Tonite -- lets get it!
Featuring Cheryl Boyce Taylor
Hosted by #mahoganybrowne & jivepoetic https://instagram.com/p/9rHCY4ipn9/
