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Brenda’s Child

About Me

Born Latoya Bosworth, she dubbed herself Brenda's Child at the age of 21, in honor of her late mother Brenda Kay Swinton. She has been writing poetry for 15 years, and performing spoken word for 6 years. She uses her poetry as an outlet as she experiences the daily joys and struggles of being a mother, youth advocate, teacher, African-American, female, optimist, and dreamseeker.Brenda's Child loves to write poetry that is uplifting and inspiring. Brenda's Child emphasizes self-love, worth, and value. She also feels obligated to tell the truth...even if it hurts.Brenda's Child's poetry is currently featured in the Pen&Ink column of the community newspaper "An African-American Point of View" .In April of 2007 Brenda's Child self-published her first book of poetry entitled"A Piece of My Mind...Poetic Confessions of a Self-Proclaimed Diva"found this flowers layout at HOT FreeLayouts.com :: MyHotComments

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Member Since: 18/11/2007
Band Website: www.brendaschild.com, www.afampointofview.com
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Influences: Maya Angelou,Langston Hughes
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My Blog

Meet Kim and Darrel’s friends....the subplot

Change of Heart Toni stood outside of Dionn's dorm room. She wanted to return the things that Dionn kept at her place. It was a trash bag full of clothes, a toothbrush, and cosmetics. She thought o...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:38:00 GMT

Despite Everything...coming in 2009

SynopsisKim Johnson is a young cynic who doesnt believe shell ever fall in love&until she meets Darrel Jackson, a confident man, with smooth looks and sweet talk. They fall in love almost instantly ...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:45:00 GMT

Tribute to Obama

And the Beat Goes On..   To Mr. President, "Ain't I woman?" Standing fearless, and tall, Sojourner asked the masses. She worked too hard  to settle for second-class citizenship  Fre...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:22:00 GMT

Our Voices

It's finally done and I am so proud, and touched by the words of our young people. Please preview or better yet purchase "Our Voices" at www.brendaschild.com. All proceeds will benefit youth programmi...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:25:00 GMT

My son needs some shoes

Your son needs some shoes, jeans, boxers and undershirts ,too. But what else is new? He's growing into a man, and he's doing it without you!. It's a shame, that you've only been to two if his basket...
Posted by on Sat, 03 May 2008 17:27:00 GMT

OLD SCHOOL-Poem

I long for those old school days, for those days when we played jump rope games used bricks to draw hopscotch, when we were afraid to drink soda with pop rocks For days when all we did was play, ...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:33:00 GMT

Sound off

SOUND OFF..... YES, I'm still angry! So don't tell me I'm not supposed to be. Because you don't know, don't have a clue of what my people have been through. You wouldn't survive a day in my ancesto...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:53:00 GMT