A Time for Celebration!

I did it! On April 11, 2009, I released my first collection of poetry entitled, Somewhere Round Midnight. The release party was held at The Feed Store in College Park, Georgia. It was an intimate gathering of family and friends, good food & GREAT cocktails! A very special thank you goes to all that came out to support and celebrate with me. Robert, who I adore for saying so many wonderful things about me that evening, Simone who worked wonders with my make-up, John Crooms for the wonderful photos, Patrick Witt, Manager of The Feed Store and Taylor & Devyn Wright my children for being awesome all night! Taylor even performed an original piece for the evening called “Success”. I can’t wait to do it all again! For more information on how to purchase copies of Somewhere Round Midnight please contact me at missknowitall.blog@gmail.com. Thanks again for all the love!

Miss Know It All

A Time for Celebration!

Why Not Me? - Part Deux

Okay...so I don't know if you remember but in March, I submitted a manuscript of poetry to Cave Canem. Well, I heard back from Cave Canem's Summer Retreat Selection Committee and unfortunately, I didn't make it in this year. I know, I know i couldn't believe it either! Just kidding. Cave Canem is a retreat for writers committed to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. The application process is very competitive and there are hundreds of applicants every year. The gift and the curse to the process is that fellows of the program are allowed to re-attend for a couple of summers after their initial experience. I'm not upset about the decision because at this point, I'm just happy that an organization of their caliber exists. It's kinda like when you were a kid and you fell off of your bike. It might have really hurt but , you rise up, dust yourself off and get back on for the next adventure.

The waiting time for the results was the hardest part but I used that creative energy for other creative projects that I had in mind. In my April 8th blog, 10 Things To Do When You're Not Feeling As Confident Or Creative As A Writer, I gave a list of suggestions for times like this. What I decided to do was:

1. Read a couple of books,
2. Participated in other writing projects,
3. Revised and completed un-finished projects.

I will continue to write and prepare for next years submission in the mean time. Thank you to everyone that sent me wonderful words of encouragement and remember,

"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability" - Zig Ziglar

Miss Know It All

Why Not Me? - Part Deux

I've Been In Cali Yall!

Bright lights in the big city, great food, family, and friends, dreams and possibilities.

Hope floated in wide night skies, memories, breath and memories again. I don't remember feeling the sting of absence as a child as I played on the soft green grass that grew in Daddies yard, moments again passed...reminded me of my own children...waiting...hopeful, dreaming.

I thought of times more innocent than these of financial obligation, love and then love again. My mouth waters at the taste... love. Its bitter scent fills my nostrils and I choke...love.

Bags packed, good-byes said, pocketed for next time, kept hart warm and marinating for a re-birth of long awaited kisses from now southern lips. Different like spring-time...new.

Glad to be back feeling my way through this dry spring,

Miss Know It All

I've Been In Cali Yall!

Happy Poetry Month! Poem # 3

Miss Cotton Candy

Floating towards my lips
A sweet butterfly
ecstasy to my dull mouth.

I close my eyes
Drifting on her distant cloud
My tongue dressed in the juices
Of my mouths lady
Silently dancing behind my teeth.

My lips sealed
with the sweat of this rumba
Legs thick as molasses
I can not begin to speak.

Numbed by the rush of this confection
A tandem of her existence and mine
I smile at the thought of a life
Filled with stained tongues and tooth aches.

by A. Wright a.k.a Miss Know It All

Happy Poetry Month! Poem # 3

Happy Poetry Month! Poem # 2

On BeComing

Your words
like food to my soul
Soft and warm
Slinking towards my memory
Slow like caterpillars
Where heart and mind cocoon
Spinning puzzle pieces of mush.

Fluttering springs over my body
My heart aches
With every breath you breathe
With every word that spills
from your mouth
I digest and be
Come
Butter
fly
Soaring between the soft
Rise and fall of your chest.

By A. Wright a.k.a Miss Know It All

Happy Poetry Month! Poem # 2

Happy Poetry Month! Poem #1

The only thing missing

Amidst the stinging silence
Between us there lies the truth of our love.
Commitment and faith slips
through the spaces of our
Distance and we
Evolve into
Forever.
Giving all that we have yet
Having nothing at the same time.

I pray that the ends to this frayed rope
find us and we connect yet again.
Just one last kiss
Kissing one
Last
Moment hello and goodbye at the same time.
Never letting go of that moment
Opening up to the possibilities of new love from an old love
Putting the hurt and the pain away not
Questioning what could be or what could have been.

Real as this may seem
Some storms are made to nurture and grow things
Taking all and nothing into consideration and teaching us that
Vulnerability is a sacred and bare place. So I ask...
Will you grow there with me?

X-rayed promises gives
sight to normally unseen love and
Yesterday’s love is but a sleep away
our dreams are the
Zenith of all of loves realities.

So I ask of you
Will you go with me?


by A. Wright a.k.a Miss Know It All

Happy Poetry Month! Poem #1

Soul Note # 1

Who You?

Hey there light skinned
Where yo color at?

Did it run out of yo foul mouth
heavy with patois and southern drawl
turn the corner in full swagger and rest
firmly on a 40oz.?

Did it drip off the natural
Curl pattern in yo daddy’s hair
Run down the street
And snatch a purse?

Did your mother’s thin lips cut you on the ass
While you danced in the mirror to a fat ass hip hop beat?
“Yeah nigga yeah”


Did the brightness of everything you are
Bring you to this moment
Of self revolution and comfort
Teaching you about being
Everything that you are
And everything that you will become
All at the same time?

Hey light skinned
Hey
Just be you.

Soul Note # 1