Poetry
Black Girl on the Bluffs!
There are two things you need to know when visiting Martha’s Vineyard: 1.) Where to go. 2.) Where NOT to go. I’ve been on “The Vineyard” – as the locals call it – for five days strong as a writer participating in a lively retreat at the Noepe Literary Arts Center on Main Street. Wait, that’s something […]
“Spiritual Opioid Dreams” as featured in Solstice Literary Magazine Fall/Winter 2015
Solstice Lit Mag is published three times a year and is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit with a mission to promote diversity of all types in literature and photography. Penny Dickerson is a writer of place, risk, and experimental inspiration. Her current creative direction merges poetics with the nonfiction genre, and she is currently penning […]
Bishop Rudolph W. McKissick, Sr. “A 45 year Legacy”
It was a tremendous blessing to contribute my creative energy in the form of a poem to Bishop Rudolph McKissick, Sr.’s 45th Anniversary Celebration. Comforting was my friend Vincent Brown’s comment that he has never known me to write a poem that rhymes. That would be correct, but I knew I had to appeal to […]
The Provocative 32 Hygiene-Stroke
I like doing it in the morning. It has emerged as a sensual ritual since the deciduous death of my sexy, thirty-two, adult soldiers. Most stand upright and salute when I smile like victors of a daily battle with debris. I am sole leader of a decay-prevention platoon who boldly confronts caffeine stains; random, organic […]
