Charan P @ The Africhan Poetry Theater May 23rd!!

About Me

Woman, Black, poet, teacher, bike rider, junk food junky, movie lover, TV addict sober for 8 years (with the occasional relapses), Libra, night owl, workaholic, bootie shaker, tennis player, NYU Graduate, never forget a face, friend till the end, never tell a secret, people watcher, poet, talker, Fredrick Douglass Creative writing Center, good listener, Chi-town south sider, teacher, Music addict (still havenâ€™t kicked this habit), wanna be MC, from a place nicknamed terror town, Cave Canem, Harlem dweller, movie lover, Tomboy when I was a kid, raised by my grandmother, love my family from a distance kinda person (accept my sister), non red meat eater, dream seeker..

Charan P. Feature @ First Fridayz - Poem To Save My Brother
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Corporate Rel feat Charan P - System of Oppression

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Charan P - Mt. Vernon

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Music:

Member Since: 9/13/2007
Band Members: Every friend I depend on to listen and give feedback on drafts of my poems during the writing and editing process...
Influences: June Jordan, Willa Warr (the baddest grandmother you ever had!), Audre Lorde, The Roots, Margaret Morris (upcoming Chi-town choreographer & my sister), Sonia Sanchez (what poet does not have her on their list!), Saul Williams, Alice Walker ("The Gospel According to Shug" what! can't mess with it), Sade (I have written to her music all my life), Suheir Hammad, John Mayer (I strive to be as vulnerable in my poetry as he is in his songs) the list goes on...
Sounds Like: What my heart won't let me keep to myself...
Record Label: Solo Dolo Poet Hailing from Chi-town...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Haiku mutation...

I want the summerbreeze to kiss the rim of eachnaked pore untileveryone one is open,grinning at the world...
Posted by Charan P @ The Africhan Poetry Theater May 23rd!! on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:55:00 PST

Thoughts of the day..

Expelling at the end of the day...sitting on my couch typing. This is part of what came out... So much of life is about letting go And the older we get the more we feel like we hav...
Posted by Charan P @ The Africhan Poetry Theater May 23rd!! on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:49:00 PST