Pictures

Weeksville Heritage Center Reading Series -- Brooklyn, NYC
Brooklyn Book Festival Photo– September, 2018 — See you there.
Barnes & Noble – John Hopkins University

With Joyce Carol Oates
Meeting THE Rita Dove in Miami. The lady is GENEROUS to a fault.

The Miami Crew – Fabienne Sylvia Josaphat -Merritt, MJ Fievre, Hector D. Junior
At Barnes & Noble (Charlottesville, VA) with Hilary Halladay, LaShonda Katrice Barnett, and Lisa Wookfork

Mother Nature showing off

The face I make after saving a group of young adults from the tiniest mouse.

Books. I love to read them. I love to write them. I need to write.
With Alice Backer for her radio show. I was her first guest. Guess people were too scared to jump.
With Krystal Sital and Dennis Norris @ Weeksville Heritage Center
With Ibi Zoboi, author of American Street and Pride

Teq Minsky took this photo. Ibi Zoboi, me, Josaphat R. Large, and Edwidge Danticat. I’m so grateful for it. Josaphat Large passed away recently. This is at a reception for Haiti Noir @ Symphony Space in NYC
in Maryland, looking at. . . I don’t even remember what it was that I saw.
Painting by acclaimed poet, Jeanie Bogart
With director and writer, Pamela Woolford.
In Miami with Jean H. Marcelin and Rach Mag, filmmaker of the searing documentary, “Deported”
Bocas Lit Festival in Trinidad Tobago
Enoch Pratt Free Library
You know HT has to be here.
With Kwame Alexander — Charlottesville, VA
Exquisite Noir – “Dark Days in Port-au-Prince” with Roxane Gay, Josaphat R. Large, Ibi Zoboi, MJ Fievre, and Katia D. Ulysse
“Mouth Don’t Speak” before it was accepted for publication
Teq Minsky photo. Sometimes a girl gotta dance
Showing off the skirt and head wrap I made.
With Tiphanie Yanique after our presentation – Enoch Pratt main library on Cathedral Street — The Poe Room
I’ve got a thing for bearded irises. I collect the weirdest colors. I put the  rhizomes on the ground. The soil, the rain, and the sun do the rest. I just watch them multiply. It gives me joy to share them with neighbors and friends.
Did I mention I’m an avid gardener.
laughing
With Johanna Ingalls and Marlon James — Miami
In conversation with Tayari Jones (American Marriage — Oprah Book Club Pick — She turns out to be the sweetest lady. . .
City Lit Festival. Don’t I look happy? I love this stuff!
A great group of writers. The best company. Joyce Abell, Jan Delury, Leslie Pietryz, Melissa Scholes Young, Marion Wink, and yours truly.
Gold from Haiti