Poet-Palooza Poetry show November 16, 2024 on zoom!
VIP TESORO POETS
amanda shea
Edith Blackbird
Edith Blackbird
Amanda Shea is a two-time Boston Music Award-winning Spoken Word Artist. Shea is an artist, performer, educator, artivist, publicist, host, and curator. She co-founded and curated six iterations of Activating ARTivism, a community festival to amplify POC through art, activism, and resistance. Her work can be found in the Museum of Fine Ar
Amanda Shea is a two-time Boston Music Award-winning Spoken Word Artist. Shea is an artist, performer, educator, artivist, publicist, host, and curator. She co-founded and curated six iterations of Activating ARTivism, a community festival to amplify POC through art, activism, and resistance. Her work can be found in the Museum of Fine Arts, The Boston Globe, TEDX, TEDXRoxbury, Netflix, Prime Video, BBC News, GBH, and much more. Shea will be releasing her first book, “Pieces of Shea” in the Spring of 2024. Amanda's work examines her personal life experiences, social justice issues, and healing through trauma utilizing art as the tool.
Edith Blackbird
Edith Blackbird
Edith Blackbird
Edith Tapia Blackbird is a queer bilingual writer/poet/performer with a “Declamation Style” from Mexico. There in 2005, placed second in a nationwide poetry contest. In 2007, The Sonora University published her in their anthology Realidad Aleatoria. In the USA, she has been published in the anthology Di-vêrsé-city in 2020. Edith has been
Edith Tapia Blackbird is a queer bilingual writer/poet/performer with a “Declamation Style” from Mexico. There in 2005, placed second in a nationwide poetry contest. In 2007, The Sonora University published her in their anthology Realidad Aleatoria. In the USA, she has been published in the anthology Di-vêrsé-city in 2020. Edith has been featured in the Lion and Pirate event, facilitated by Malvern Books (2020), and in the Waterfront Immersive Arts Festival (2020 and 2021). Edith was published in the SINEW: 10 Years of Poetry in The Brew anthology and in the Touching Tongues women’s erotic anthology (2021). Has been interviewed on the Hearsay Poetry podcast. Edith co-hosts the monthly virtual event Lenguas that promotes cultural diversity and art.
Her social media: 1.Facebook Writer Page: https://www.facebook.com/edithblackbirdfly 2.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/e.blackbirdfly/ 3.Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlackbirdEdith 4.Facebook Lenguas Page: https://www.facebook.com/lenguasdiversity
5.Venmo: @brujix
6.Spotify episode participation: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7tTsEdpc8OsGoIxqEqNfgz?si=19388212243c492f
Ericka FloyD
Edith Blackbird
josephine Lore
Born Born Ericka Monique Marsh from the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn. September 14. But last residence in Brooklyn was in the East New York part, near Linden Boulevard. Ericka left New York in the summer of 1979 to move to Asheboro, North Carolina. Left North Carolina in 1988 to go into the United States Air Force, where she did one ter
Born Born Ericka Monique Marsh from the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn. September 14. But last residence in Brooklyn was in the East New York part, near Linden Boulevard. Ericka left New York in the summer of 1979 to move to Asheboro, North Carolina. Left North Carolina in 1988 to go into the United States Air Force, where she did one term but had two duty stations during that time, one at Hurlburt Field Florida and one in Europe at Zaragosa airbase Spain.
Ericka spent 6 1/2 years in Europe affording her the opportunity of living in three countries Spain Germany and Belgium. During the time at Hurlburt Field Florida, she met and married the father of her four children in 1990, whom she is now divorced from.
From the union, three women and one young man were born. Also during that time of marriage, she had the opportunity to live in Colorado Springs Colorado for four years as well as Maryland for one year, and now lives in Greenville, South Carolina since 2002.
She started writing poetry more frequently right after the pandemic. So she is still a baby in this.
josephine Lore
Edith Blackbird
josephine Lore
a pearl in this diamond world … Josephine LoRe has shared her poetry live and in global zoom-rooms. Her pieces have been put to music, danced, integrated into visual art, and interpreted in ASL. She has two collections, Unity and the Calgary Herald Bestseller The Cowichan Series, and individual poems have been published in literary maga
a pearl in this diamond world … Josephine LoRe has shared her poetry live and in global zoom-rooms. Her pieces have been put to music, danced, integrated into visual art, and interpreted in ASL. She has two collections, Unity and the Calgary Herald Bestseller The Cowichan Series, and individual poems have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in 15 countries and 5 languages. Her poem “Enough” was selected for a Feed the Children PSA campaign in the US in 2023 and her newest collection, In My Father’s House, will be published by Moonstone Press.
Josephine is a first-generation Canadian poet of Sicilian descent, and respectfully acknowledges that she lives and creates on the ancestral and traditional lands of the Piikani, Siksika, Kainai, Tsuut'ina, Nakota and Dene’ peoples. https://www.josephinelorepoet.com/
Laura Lilia
The Poet Rosegold
Marissa Prada
Laura Lilia resides in her hometown Houston, TX with her family, two pet chickens, and her niece Chihuahua. As a child, writing was always the best way of processing her unique unexpected life experiences within time, as life kept piling on, she drifted away from her writing. In early 2019, she attended local and online writing workshops
Laura Lilia resides in her hometown Houston, TX with her family, two pet chickens, and her niece Chihuahua. As a child, writing was always the best way of processing her unique unexpected life experiences within time, as life kept piling on, she drifted away from her writing. In early 2019, she attended local and online writing workshops all over the world to find her way back into writing. She created the pieces of poetry collections in her first debut poetry book “Becoming Forever Changing Leaves.” Her poetry has become a blueprint for how she was able to make sense of her unique experiences, and redirected her back into her walk of faith. Laura is a Community Health Worker in the medical field by day, attending school in the evenings, an active advocate for Suicide Prevention and Awareness with Poppy’s Run for Life, and is a continuously curious fan of experiencing life through art, fitness, and being in the world to inspire others... as others inspire her.
Instagram: @Llau48
Facebook: Laura Lilia
TikTok: Internalwaves
Soundcloud : Laura Lilia https://on.soundcloud.com/XACA7nfrCEeu29Z18
Marissa Prada
The Poet Rosegold
Marissa Prada
Marissa Prada is a poet, author, spoken word artist, and publisher from Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a mother of two daughters. She loves books, authors, and advocates for poetry and the literary arts. She began journaling in high school. Poetry is the heart of her passion for over 20 years & has seen her through surviving death twice
Marissa Prada is a poet, author, spoken word artist, and publisher from Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a mother of two daughters. She loves books, authors, and advocates for poetry and the literary arts. She began journaling in high school. Poetry is the heart of her passion for over 20 years & has seen her through surviving death twice in her life. Her work ranges from social justice issues, to humorous parody pieces, to sensual erotica. She hosts weekly online open mics at The Word is Write, and has hosted live at the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe in New York City, and was a featured reader at the NYC Poetry Festival. Marissa is the founder of Read or Green Books, a female-forward press that publishes many debut poetry collections. This year, her press will have published over 200 authors, and over 50 collections of poetry. She is the Creative Director for "The Word is Write" on Facebook & Instagram. She is a founding member of the worldwide women’s poetry organization, Tesoro. Marissa has been included in multiple national and international poetry anthologies, magazines, and journals. Her current collections are available for purchase through Read or Green Books.IG: @PoetryandsomePrada
The Poet Rosegold
The Poet Rosegold
The Poet Rosegold
Jennifer K. Yancey, a.k.a. The Poet RoseGold, hails from “the real Gotham City” – a Bronx, New York native who discovered Poetry at 15 and began using it as a more creative way of communicating with the world. Coupled with her 20-year career as an Army photojournalist, Poet RoseGold knew how to capture the human condition in real time thr
Jennifer K. Yancey, a.k.a. The Poet RoseGold, hails from “the real Gotham City” – a Bronx, New York native who discovered Poetry at 15 and began using it as a more creative way of communicating with the world. Coupled with her 20-year career as an Army photojournalist, Poet RoseGold knew how to capture the human condition in real time through her lens and record its consciousness with her pen. She jokingly refers to her work as “Incendiary Redbone Poetry,” highlighting the injustices tarnishing the American landscape; spirituality; intimacy; self-love/Black love; mental health; and (past) life in the military. Poet RoseGold’s voice has crossed time zones virtually and in-person, through podcasts and numerous community engagements, including an appearance on the “red-dot stage” at TEDx Colorado Springs, in 2019. Poet RoseGold is also a member of TESORO – a newly-formed organization whose purpose is to hold safe space internationally for women “word-warriors” to “do their work.” Poet RoseGold’s work has been featured in several anthologies: Between a Laugh and a Tear (1991); Love Letters to Gaia (2021); The Cuddy Family Foundation For Veterans Poetry Journal Volume One and The Cuddy Family Foundation For Veterans Poetry Journal Volume Two (2021); Poet Speak Magazine, issue #40 (2021); Rising Voices: Poems Toward A Social Justice Revolution (2022); These Fought in Any Case: A Collection of Poems and Short Stories by Veterans (2022); and I Can’t Breathe, vol. 2 (2022). Her debut Poetry book, Poetry Is A Love Language (But First, Lemme Tell You Something … ) is slated for a late 2023 release.
FB: The Poet RoseGold
IG: @thepoetrosegold
shannon lockhart
The Poet Rosegold
The Poet Rosegold
Shannon is a trauma therapist, clinical social worker, human rights activist, and teacher who has embarked on her newest journey as an artist and poet. She is a native Louisvillian, but has spent most of her adult life living in Chicago and Central America. Shannon spent 12 years working with indigenous communities, genocide survivors, an
Shannon is a trauma therapist, clinical social worker, human rights activist, and teacher who has embarked on her newest journey as an artist and poet. She is a native Louisvillian, but has spent most of her adult life living in Chicago and Central America. Shannon spent 12 years working with indigenous communities, genocide survivors, and other human rights activists in Guatemala before returning to the U.S. with her family. She is now a therapist working with survivors, and above all, she is a mother who is trying to impart joy, gratitude, and respect for the unexpected bumps along the road. Shannon has published her poetry online with Rebelle Society and Women's Spiritual Poetry, and in print, in DoveTales, published by the group, Writing for Peace. She can frequently be found drumming in parks with her family, drawing, or reading her poetry at the Urban Goatwalker Coffeehouse in the Phoenix Hill neighborhood. She is thrilled to be part pf the Tesoro poets and promises to take up space and speak her truth.
Facebook: sklockhartpoetryandart
Shockie G
Teresa E. Gallion
Stacy Dyson
Shockie G is a Black, Lesbian, Spoken word Poet. Currently the 2022 Grand Slam Champion in Pittsburgh PA, she has won multiple Slam competitions both online and in person. You can find samples of her work within Read or Green’s “Out Loud” LGBTQ Anthology, Nymeria Publishing’s “Descendants of Medusa” Anthology and a previous self-published
Shockie G is a Black, Lesbian, Spoken word Poet. Currently the 2022 Grand Slam Champion in Pittsburgh PA, she has won multiple Slam competitions both online and in person. You can find samples of her work within Read or Green’s “Out Loud” LGBTQ Anthology, Nymeria Publishing’s “Descendants of Medusa” Anthology and a previous self-published chapbook “Shattered Emotions Scattered Thoughts” Currently working on a manuscript for a full collection, you can catch her in and out of Open Mics, Workshops and other spaces that allow for connection with our communities.
Stacy Dyson
Teresa E. Gallion
Stacy Dyson
Stacy Dyson is a Black woman poet who explores/illuminates the life and times of the Black woman. She is the founder /lead poet of TESORO.
With shows in Oklahoma, Massachusetts, California, Nebraska, South Dakota, Louisiana, Colorado, and Texas, she has released six chapbooks and five CDs Her play FANNIE’S GIRLS: A 4-1-1 IN 5-PART ATTITUDE
Stacy Dyson is a Black woman poet who explores/illuminates the life and times of the Black woman. She is the founder /lead poet of TESORO.
With shows in Oklahoma, Massachusetts, California, Nebraska, South Dakota, Louisiana, Colorado, and Texas, she has released six chapbooks and five CDs Her play FANNIE’S GIRLS: A 4-1-1 IN 5-PART ATTITUDE is a 2000 Colorado Women’s Playwriting Festival winner.
Former Poet Laureate for Imagination Celebration (Colorado Springs), CEO/lead poet of DragonsWing (Colorado Springs), and Page to Stage:Women's Voices (San Diego),
she is touring with her latest collections, LOVELY AND SUFFERING and FOLLOW ME ON THIS, and building TESORO one firesinger at a time.
IG:@saintraines
Teresa E. Gallion
Teresa E. Gallion
Teresa E. Gallion
Teresa E. Gallion is a seeker on a journey to work on unfolding spiritually in this present lifetime. Writing is a spiritual exercise for Teresa. Her passions are traveling the world and hiking the mountain and desert landscapes of the western United States. Her journeys into nature are nurtured by the Sufi poets Rumi and Hafiz. The land
Teresa E. Gallion is a seeker on a journey to work on unfolding spiritually in this present lifetime. Writing is a spiritual exercise for Teresa. Her passions are traveling the world and hiking the mountain and desert landscapes of the western United States. Her journeys into nature are nurtured by the Sufi poets Rumi and Hafiz. The land is sacred ground and her spiritual temple where she goes for quiet reflection and contemplation. She has published four books: Walking Sacred Ground, Contemplation in the High Desert, Chasing Light, a finalist in the 2013 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards and her most recent book, Scent of Love, a finalist in the 2021 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. She has two CDs, On the Wings of the Wind and Poems from Chasing Light. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.
Website: http://teresagallion.yolasite.com/ Publisher: http://www.innerchildpress.com/teresa-e-gallion.php
