✨KANSAS CITY: COME THROUGH!✨This showcase is TONIGHT and the cover charge goes towards an incredible cause. Support suicide prevention efforts. Support local poets - including me! Hope to see you there.

If you missed my feature in the Poetic Underground KC Suicide Prevention Month Showcase Blip Roasters last night, here’s the next best thing: kansascity.com/news/local/art…

CAREER UPDATE: I joined the marketing & communications team KVC Health Systems as their PR and Media Relations Director! I loved my time KSHB 41 News - and - I’m thrilled to take on this new challenge.

Proud to be part of the dream team that is the marketing and communications department KVC Health Systems ! We just wrapped our first annual retreat. I learned a lot about my new colleagues & feel inspired to continue & further our efforts to support KVC’s mission. The best is yet to come!

Just had the most fun I’ve ever had voting! Befriended people in line, the poll workers were cracking jokes, & we cheered & applauded first time voters. It took an hour - not bad for doing your civic duty #govote

Grateful to have witnessed the Poetic Underground KC trans day of remembrance showcase last night. All the trans poets who performed shared their truths powerfully & beautifully. As a 🏳️‍🌈, I strive to be an ally to my 🏳️‍⚧️ siblings. Please know with me, you are safe and loved 🫶🏽

Seven years ago, I needed a place like this. Thankfully, I received treatment that saved my life. Now, I work to support an organization whose mission is to offer healing, help and hope to people in crisis. I could not be more proud of - or grateful for - this full circle moment.

My dear friend Melissa Ferrer (&) has given us a gift: a glimpse into her notes app. Go buy her latest chapbook, “steno pad”, from Turnsol Books in Kansas City (you can order online if need be). As she writes in her author’s note: may her poems delight and disturb.

From my loved ones to yours, happy holidays! May your days be merry and bright.

HOT TAKE: It is not our job to make the world a better place. It is our job to become better people. And the world, by literal logic, science, spirituality, and math will follow suit.

2024: You brought so much change, so much newness, so many huge life shifts. I couldn’t be more grateful for all of them. 2025: I’m ready to take advantage of all the openness, possibilities and opportunities you have to offer.

✨NEW YEAR, NEW BEGINNINGS✨ Looking for your next best thing professionally? Join me, Elaine Walker & Aundrea Cline-Thomas for a conversation on Thursday, January 9th at 6:30pm CST about how we transitioned careers. Sign up here: streamyard.com/watch/CrjFMJmk…

I don’t know who needs to hear this…don’t submit that DoorDash order.

JOURNALISTS: Your 👏🏼 skills 👏🏼 are 👏🏼 transferable 👏🏼 Don’t believe me? Hear how I learned to translate my work in news, into a language folks outside of news could understand: instagram.com/p/DE55CMCy1mC/…

KANSAS CITY: Come join me Wednesday January 22nd as I co-host my first Poetic Underground KC open mic! Blip Roasters at 7:30pm. Be there or be square.

Last night marked my first night co-hosting an open mic for Poetic Underground KC . This moment was 3 years in the making & couldn’t have been sweeter. If you’re interested in poetry, swing by Blip Roasters any Wednesday night. You’ll likely find me there ready to welcome you.

32nd birthday shown backwards. Not pictured: mani/pedi, presents, church, & too many well wishes to count. Excited to see what year 32 has in store for me.

This doesn’t even begin to capture the magic joy oladokun is in crocs. brought to The Truman last night. So grateful I got to see one of my favorite artists live for the first time. Shout out to Luke Tyler Shelton who opened for Joy beautifully.

What: Poetic Underground KC open mic Where: Blip Roasters When: This Wednesday at 7:30pm Who: Myself & Willa Gwyn as your hosts, you as a poet or audience member Why: Poetry is dope - duh 😉 No cover charge?? You can’t afford NOT to come!