so july was awesome. just trust me. it was awesome and intense and it is over for the next eleven months. and that is a good thing. i co-led another amazing civil rights journey, and again this year all of our students survived. and that is a good thing.
came back home and went straight to the national poetry slam. though we didn’t win (or come close), we had a great time and saw a boatload full of great poetry. i look forward to going back next year, hopefully with two teams from dc rearing to kick some ass.
now i’m back in dc, working and hosting my open mic, and trying to get ready for this upcoming school year. and that is a good thing.
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Born in Washington, DC and raised in Crofton, Maryland, Jonathan B. Tucker (JBT) is a writer, performer, educator, DJ, and dreamer passionate about poetry, youth empowerment, racial and social justice, and finding purpose through service to others. He has received numerous awards and artist fellowships, and has performed and taught at schools, libraries, detention centers, museums, and conferences around the world. His poems have appeared in Howard University’s Amistad Journal alongside the late Amiri Baraka (Howard University, 2011), in Etan Thomas’s anthology Voices of the Future (Haymarket Books, 2012), in two self-published chapbooks (jonathan b. tucker, 2010; and i got the matches, 2012), and on the stages of the Kennedy Center and the South African State Theatre. JBT represented DC at the National Poetry Slam in 2009 and 2010, and has helped coordinate and coach the DC Youth Slam Team with Split This Rock since 2011.
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