
Atlanta Word Works Poet – Tia King
“I don’t know whether I chose to do poetry, more so than I was just writing, and it just turned into this. But I love

“I don’t know whether I chose to do poetry, more so than I was just writing, and it just turned into this. But I love

“This poem is an ode to becoming the inferno I want to see in the world…”
Meet 17-year-old Jaha Bella, member of Team Atlanta,

Get to know Ninel Nekay, 19, Atlanta’s Poet Laureate 2016-17 and a member of Team Atlanta, heading to Brave New Voices international poetry slam.

Amazing Grace
How sweet the sound
As the harmony floated about the bellies of slave ships…

Atlanta WordWorks Wednesday #ATLWWW Weekly poems from your Team Atlanta representatives of Brave New Voices 2017 DeAndre, 18, class of 2020 of Morehouse College and

“If the words are pretty but they don’t fit right inside of you, then it’s not the piece that you should be writing… Only write

With a pen graced with cocoa butter, abundant metaphors and a genuine raw soul, Tia’s words and wisdom of self supersede her years, and we

So, this fancy-shmancy, whitey-ditey musuem stuck its only black exhibit in the basement.


Kate’s Club teens speak up about their grief journey.

I go up to the stage
My hands are clamming and my heart is thumping loudly against my ear drum
I keep my

A Wednesday night, during a dinner date with procrastination
Scrolling through YouTube aimlessly when a Buzzfeed video
in my recommended reads, “People Try