“The level of support and welcome and warmth from the Las Vegas artist community is unparalleled. I kept going to open mics and through that unlocked this realization that, whoa, I really am I poet.”
Las Vegas Weekly
Books
1.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Wilkerson writes really big books, both in pages and scope. The follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning
The Warmth of Other Suns posits that caste, a system of societal hierarchy seen in other parts of the world, is manifested most profoundly in the treatment of Black Americans through historical and contemporary oppression.
2.
A Promised Land by Barack Obama This first of a two-volume memoir reminds us that words matter, and they can be eloquent, too. Get off Twitter and savor these 768 pages slowly, because there’s no release date yet for the second part.