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Join us for a Free Workshop with licensed Social Worker, Marianne Dublado, as she shares wisdom on ways to care for yourself in the face of corona. Gain resources to cope and stay relatively sane in these trying times.

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Rayla Crawford is one of the most generous and loving people I know.  Not only is she a phenomenal poet, a Wiley College Alum, and a Volunteer Coordinator for an awesome organization that helps feed the needy, she helps care for her younger siblings and her mother. Earlier this week, Rayla's mother ran into a serious health complication and Rayla is doing all she can to maintain the bills. In the past, she has been the first one to give, open up her home, or come running when a friend is in need. As she manages this delicate situation, I want to show her that she is not alone. She has a village that can help. Right now the biggest concern is managing the financial burden that comes hospital stays. She needs money quickly to continue to afford he best health care for her mother.   Please consider donating any amount because everything helps. I ask that you don't reach out directly to her right now because her focus is on caring for her family, but I do not mind answering any questions. If you would prefer to send her money via cashapp, her handle is $RaieCrawford. Please send what you can and let's shower her with love in this sensitive time.

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Houston VIP’s Deborah ’D.E.E.P’ Mouton - Open Season @wanpoetry (Bayou City Slam 2014)

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This event is free and held at Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge on the last Thursday of the month at 8:30 p.m. Join us this November for a special edition Friendsgiving reading, featuring local writers from Houston literary orgs.

The line-up!

Icess Fernandez Rojas (Tintero Project) is an educator, writer, and a former journalist. She is a graduate of Goddard College’s MFA program. Her work has been internationally published in Queen Mobs Lit Journal, Poetry 24, Rabble Lit, Minerva Rising Literary Journal, and the Feminine Collective’s anthology Notes from Humanity. Her Houston-based story, “Happy Hunting”, will appear in the forthcoming Houston Noiranthology. Her nonfiction/memoir work has appeared in Dear Hope, NBCNews.com, HuffPost and the Guardian. She is a recipient of the Owl of Minerva Award, a VONA/Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation alum, a Dos Brujas Workshop alum, and a Kimbilio Fellow. She’s currently working on her first novel and memoir. Follow her on Twitter: @Icess and at her website: http://icessfernandez.com/

Brendan Stephens (Gulf Coast) is a writer from the mountains in Western Maryland. His work is forthcoming or has appeared in Epoch, the Southeast Review, Carolina Quarterly, the Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. He is an assistant fiction editor for Gulf Coast Magazine. Currently, he is in his second year in the UH Creative Writing and Literature PhD program.

Ebony Stewart (Write About Now) is a touring performance artist and slam poet who has been active in the central Texas slam poetry scene and theater community for over a decade. She coached the 2012 Austin Neo-Soul & 2015 Austin Poetry Slam teams, that finished first and fifth, respectively, at the National Poetry Slam and the 2015 They Speak Youth Slam that finished eighth in the world at Brave New Voices. In 2015, she debuted her one-woman show, Hunger, for which she won a B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a drama and received the David Mark Cohen New Play Award. Recently crowned, Co-Champion of the 2017 Women of the World Poetry Slam. Her work can be seen on Button Poetry, Write About Now Poetry, Poetry Slam Inc., and read in several online magazines such as For H (at Poison Pen Reading Series) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqaGB3zgz70/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3v8g1auxfaqk

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Repost from @vipartshouston @TopRankRepost #TopRankRepost Our next meeting is just around the corner and it's FREE!!! Join us for another chance to build community and sharpen our craft. RSVP via eventbrite! #writersofcolor #community #craft #writersofinstagram @houstonvipslam https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpzxw1UA5fr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7s7cmrvujp4v

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houstonvipslamThank you to Councilwoman @amanda4houston for stopping by #enlighTEN! We love that she and @cityofhouston  is always supporting the arts and giving space to poets! . . . . #councilwomanedwards #cityofhouston #houstontx #decadefullapoems #government #thearts #houstonartists #poetsofinstagram #poetsoftexas

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vipartshouston: Congrats to @houstonvipslam and @livelifedeep on their breathtaking 10 year anniversary!  Keep making us proud! Keep giving stages to necessary voices! #dothework #10years #enlighTEN #decadefullapoems #pocketfullapoems #poems #poetry #slam #poetsofinstagram

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Urban247 Lifestyle Brand sits down with The City of Houston's first Black Poet Laureate.

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Deborah ’D.E.E.P’ Mouton - “Sting” (WoWPS 2014) “From 1929-1974, the state of North Carolina used eugenics as a philosophical reason to sterilize young, poverty-stricken women without their knowledge, thousands of which are still alive today.” Performing during the Last Chance Slam at the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam.

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Deborah ’D.E.E.P’ Mouton - “Mother Emanuel” (IWPS 2015)

“Upon entering your church, the Devil don’t always appear out of place. Remember, he was once an angel, and still remembers how to sing.”

Performing during prelims at the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam. Subscribe to Button on YouTube!

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Deborah ‘D.E.E.P’ Mouton, from “Mother Emanuel”. Check out the full poem here.

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“Eight month old nectar hanging around your abdomen changes the way you fly”

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FROM THE VAULT! Deborah ’D.E.E.P’ Mouton - “Sting” (WoWPS 2014)

Performing during the Last Chance Slam at the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam. Help bring Button to you.

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“Upon entering your church, the Devil don’t always appear out of place. Remember, he was once an angel, and still remembers how to sing.”

— Deborah ‘D.E.E.P’ Mouton - “Mother Emanuel” (IWPS 2015)

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@Houston tonight we celebrate @houstonvipslam’s #TenYearAnniversary. You will be supporting #writingworkshops, #performanceworkshops, and other community events. You also get to meet the #HoustonVIPFamily. Your local poets that have represented #Houston at #NPS, #IWPS, #WOWPS, and #TGS. Get your tickets at: https://bit.ly/2NlX6am #enlighTEN #charity #houston #htown #htx #htx #poetry #houstonpoetry #txpoetry #houstonpoet #art #artist #communityservice #tedtalks #poetryslam #iwps #wowps #tgs #godsplan #writingprompts #writingcommunity #writingworkshop #nonprofit #youthpoets https://www.instagram.com/p/BohKWTcFPqN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=winu0zm0i1w8

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Today is the day we celebrate @houstonvipslam’s 10 year #anniversary. 10 years of poetry and giving back to the community. Thank you @livelifedeep and #HoustonVIPFamily! #Htown tonight come out and celebrate with your #team. Get your tickets at: https://bit.ly/2NlX6am #enlighTEN #charity #houston #htown #htx #htx #poetry #houstonpoetry #txpoetry #houstonpoet #art #artist #communityservice #tedtalks #poetryslam #iwps #wowps #tgs #godsplan #writingprompts #writingcommunity #writingworkshop (at Houston Museum of African American Culture) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bog2arTluZc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vm9o1qh867sg

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Urban247 Lifestyle Brand sits down with The City of Houston's first Black Poet Laureate.

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Deborah first breaks down the real meaning of superwoman and then crafts a beautiful poem revolving around why it's time we replace the cape of superwoman with humanness.   Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton an internationally-known poet, singer, actress, photographer, and the current poet laureate for Houston. After publishing her first poetry collection at the age of 19, D.E.E.P rose up in the spoken word world and was ranked the #2 female poet in the world. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.