HRYP - Team Meeting & Rehearsal
February 06, 2012 (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)

HRYP Coaches - GodChild and Nathan Richardson meet with Hampton Roads Youth Poets to plan & reheasre for upcoming poetry slamms and 2012 Brave New Voices International Poetry Slam

Coach: Nathan Richardson at 757-535-1505

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Poets

Brenda Andrews is a newspaper publisher, veteran journalist and public speaker who lives in Virgnia. Brenda H. Andrews writes poetry under the name Belle. In her first collection of poems (The Seasons of Love), she looks to the seasons - Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring as prototypes to identify and embrace the ups and downs of living in love. Just as surely as nature's seasons change, so do the ways we relate in our love connections. Part autobilographical in content, her poems speak to the souls desire to love and be loved and to the transformative power of God to make all things right. Call to Order 888-795-4274 Ext 7879

Alfreda Brown-Kelly is an author of poetry who lives in Hampton Virginia. Alfreda is a native of Thibodaux, Loiusiana and previsouly lived in New Orleans, Louisiana for ten years. Alfreda has written poetry for years and has started on a children's collection called the Victoria E. Kelly Series. As a child, reading was Alfreda's favorite hobby and the weekly highlight was waiting for the bookmobile to arrive to check out as many books as possible.

Ms Kelly's newest collection of poetry "The Skin I am In" was released in July 2010 to rave reviews.

Alfreda is a graduate of Delgado Community College and Nicholls State University. She currently attends Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Transformation of the Mind, Body & Soul is her first book. Her work has also been published in the anthology Ancestral Rites published by BookClubEtc, and also in Praise and Hampton Roads My Time magazines. Please visit her website at www.alfreadabrownkelly.com

Synnika Lofton is a poet/recording artist who has recorded more than thirty albums of poetry, including his highly praised debut, The New Breed. His poems have been published in Experience Reality Magazine, Quay: A Journal of the Arts, and UpStreet: A Literary Magazine. He wrote the poem, "Sacred Drum," for the Goddard College Presidential Inauguration of President Mark Schulman. Through his Global Poetry Project, his poetry has been heard in France, Norway, Switzerland, Japan, Haiti, Venezuela, and Israel. His poems, "Guerrilla Ignition" and "Love's Outlaw" appeared in the documentary, Super-Size Me, Too. Lofton received a B.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Visit his web site at www.synnika.com

Phillis Johnson lives in Chesapeake Virginia with her husband and their black lab. Her first two books are Being Frank with Anne, a poetic interpretation of Anne Frank's diary and Hot and Bothered by It, a midlife humor book, both were published by Community Press. Her latest book is Twelve is for More Than Doughnuts, a book of poetry and essays based on the Bible. Her writing has also appeared in Woman's World, The Sun, Candor and The Piedmont Writer's Report, among others. She freelancers for the Virginia-Pilot and Tidewater Teacher Magazine and helps teenagers work on their writing skills. She hosts workshops and open mike nights through the Russell Memorial Library. She also belongs to Hampton Roads Writers, Cheasapeake Bay Poets, Romance Writers of America and Cheaspeake Romance Writers.

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