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Poet. Voiceover. Songwriter. Facilitator ✨
Author @mooreblackpress @amistadbooks
Incoming Executive Director @thurberhouse
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Very excited for November’s cohort session. We have an incomparable facilitator @iambarbarafant who will bring us only what she can. #PoetryCaviarProductions #PoetryCaviarPresents #InauguralCohort
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We are excited for November’s Poetry Caviar Cohort workshop! Our incomparable facilitator, @iambarbarafant will bring us only what she can. #PoetryCaviarProductions #PoetryCaviarPresents #InauguralCohortExperience
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Columbus, Ohio. That’s a major part of the lore❣️
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I Dream of A Place. Writer/Producer @jessicacaremoor Director @land_daniel Asst to Director @audrakubat Song features vocals from soul singer @aproposmusic & legendary emcee @onebedoublelo7 Music by @clydemoop Appearances by @kingmooreart @izzymiyamoto_ My neighborhood & Detroit community. #thehousethatpoemsbuilt #fyc #spokenwordgrammy Full video@coming soon! Get the album in my bio!!
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It’s been a LONG two weeks of install, but “Spirit & Dust” opens this week at Urban Arts Space in downtown Columbus! The show runs from October 13–November 14, with an opening reception on Friday, October 16 from 5–7 PM, featuring a durational performance by Michael J. Morris. The exhibition and all events are free and open to the public. Many, many thanks to the entire UAS staff and all our phenomenal interns, as well as the 18 artists participating in this exhibition. We can’t wait to see you at the gallery! “stone, bone, bruise, and breath” is a durational performance created and performed by Michael J. Morris. A body and a large piece of limestone move together through the gallery in subtle and quietly shifting configurations. Inspired in part by the widespread tradition of marking the graves of the dead with stones, it is a dance between what is fleeting and what is enduring, the limited time of living and dying along with the deep geological time of the more-than-human world. The preparation and performance of the piece is also an extended meditation on the ways that what we carry—including our grief—changes us, increasing some capacities while also diminishing others. “Spirit & Dust” is curated by Diane Callahan and Michelle Burdine Participating Artists: Kristina Arnold, Mary Jo Bole, Michelle Burdine, Diane Callahan, Elvira Clayton, Barbara Fant, Ton’nea Green, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Dana Lynn Harper, Ian Hersko, Gee Horton, Laura Larson, Tracy Longley-Cook, Michael J. Morris, Christian O’Keeffe, Paul O’Keeffe, Chantal Wnuk, Melissa Vogley Woods Events at Urban Arts Space Opening Reception featuring a durational performance from Michael J. Morris Friday, October 16, 2026, 5–7 PM Stories We Carry: A Storytelling Circle with The Grief Club Thursday, October 22, 6–8 PM Artist Commune: Death Café Saturday, October 24, 2–5 PM What We Talk About When We Talk About Dying Thursday, November 5, 6–8 PM Fathers Writing Through Grief with Just Dads Saturday, November 7, 12–2 PM Death Over Dinner Thursday, November 12, 6:30–8:30 PM #death #deathcafe #deathoverdinner #mortality #grief michael morris leaning over a rock in the gallery space in front of a glass sculpture and hanging blue panels
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Join this inaugural experience at the Columbus Museum of Art! Purchase your ticket(s) by clicking the link in bio.
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🥂HAPPY 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!🥂 📚MY OLDER BROTHER, A FAMOUS RAPPER 📚🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 🌏Sept 29th, 2025 This remains one of my favorite projects, ever. Therefore, I predict it will remain available forever. Link in bio. I recommend purchasing directly from me for a signed copy. Any educators or people with large community libraries/spaces, hmu if you'd like to work something out! Let's celebrate 1 year by getting a copy for you, your student(s), mentees, big bros, or your holiday packages??:) In this past year, I have not done with this book, even a small fraction of what I plan to do with it for a lifetime. We don't need to know everyone's business. But there is power in a deliberate story. A necessary release. A relatable narrative. A new perspective, perhaps. I am witness and a recipient of that power. In this 30th year of my writing journey, I'm grateful for the gifts of poetry and time and belief (in self and the word), which have granted me the ability to sit down and creatively organize my honesty, joy, and pain into words people are open to hearing and reading. What an honor! 🌏💿 "My Older Brother, A Famous Rapper is a carefully made mixtape filled with color and heat. This collection aches, howls, hollers, spits, nods its head in recognition, and remembers. The poems compel the reader to look and look again, finding beauty in every corner and fall in love with the music of it." —Suzi Q. Smith, author of A Gospel of Bones (Alternating Current, 2021) 🌏💿
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August - October May we swoon despite the fall of infrastructures designed to numb us, end us, and remake us as voiceless apathetic cog workers
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Sometimes healing looks like gathering around the same table. ❤️ @thecultureofyou @healingbrokencircles We were honored to welcome Healing Broken Circles to Flavor 91 Bistro for #thebigtable an evening centered around community; creativity; and conversation. @colsfoundation Through live performances, honest conversations, personal testimony, and a shared meal; we learned more about the work being done to support people impacted by the criminal justice system through healing and the arts. Thank you to Karen Hewitt, Healing Broken Circles, The Columbus Foundation’s The Big Table, and everyone who brought their story, listened to someone else’s, or simply shared space with us. This is what we love about opening our doors; you never know what conversations will happen around the table. Good food feeds people; community feeds something deeper. 🫶🏽 📍 Flavor 91 Bistro | 5186 E. Main St., Whitehall, OH 🌐 www.flavor91.com #Flavor91 #HealingBrokenCircles #TheBigTable #ColumbusOhio
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I don’t think y’all understand. ROOTS: An Open Expression in Identity is foundational for MAG. It’s where we started: our first event to raise funds and support local wordsmiths. They blessed us with their words, reflections, and sound. That room means so much to us, and we’re so excited to have many of our ROOTS hosted by The Giovanni Collective. If you’ve been to ROOTS, you know why this is special. 🖤 Come through and share a piece, a memory, or a reflection with The Giovanni Collective in the ROOTS room at #AFRO, Saturday, Oct 3, 8–10p at the Maroon Culture Lab.
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When I tell you Ms. Freda's 70th birthday celebration was a party...I mean it. Thankful for her presence and continued love that she shares with the columbus community. It was an honor to capture 70 years of beauty and excellence. 🙏🏿
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Black Camp was a dream. The ancestors’s dream. My father’s dream. My grandmother’s dreams. My mother’s dreams. My dreams. I am still processing all the goodness that was Black Camp. 🖤⛺️ Cheers to @blackcampbyrd and her vision for @grow.black.camp . It was the reset and hope I needed at this very moment. Make your way to Black Camp in a city near you! #leadershipdevelopment #community #Blackcamp #kingartscomplex #maroonartsculturelab
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