June 11, 2021 | By Kaitlin Murphy-Knudsen Last week, Florida’s dry season gave way to the summer clouds that grow big and gorgeous across the sky, peaking into… Read More
Genre: Literary
Choices and the Chances They Create
May 21, 2021 | By Tenea D. Johnson . . . Last night I wrote this tweet. Today I thought I’d expound. Some authors are a brand. They create stories… Read More
Happy Pride from The Rookery – Fiction and Poetry
June 7, 2021 | Curated by Chelsea Catherine and Gloria Muñoz Happy Pride from The Rookery! . . . I went to my first Pride in 2016. The parade… Read More
Tenea Johnson
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Tenea D. Johnson is a multimedia storyteller, musician, editor, arts & empowerment entrepreneur, and award-winning author of numerous short stories and 8 speculative fiction works, including Frequencies, a Fiction Album and Broken Fevers, of… Read More
Young Voices
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Blog #24 For this post I want to say how incredibly grateful I am to encounter such amazing talent from young writers. I am constantly inspired by my students… Read More
Colombia
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I’m flying out to Colombia tomorrow, during one of the most difficult times the country has experienced in the last ten years or so. People are so desperate with the… Read More
Green Book of Tampa Bay – On the Road to Social Justice
May 12, 2021 | By Margo Hammond . . . Green Book of Tampa Bay provides a directory of Black-owned businesses in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties – the online list currently… Read More
Watching my mentor at work
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Last week I had the opportunity to see my mentor, Roxanne Fay, perform in Jobsite’s production of Henry V. It was my first venture outside after more than a year… Read More
Poems That Follow Us
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Blog #23 Once an idea for a poem blooms, I generally finish the poem within a couple of weeks but sometimes I need to live more—for months, or even years—before… Read More
Moments and Decades
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You’ve no doubt noticed the time acceleration machine that is the aging process. The relativity of time becomes more pronounced the more attention one pays and as you get older… Read More