Shani-Angela

Honored to have my poetry featured at the 2025 American River Roots Festival in Cincinnati this month.

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You Want a Writer to Speak at Your Funeral Immortality Is in the Details, and Writers Carry Them

You want the writer to pay attention to the details everyone else overlooks. Not just that you loved coffee, but that you sipped it slowly, letting the steam fog your glasses before you took your first taste.

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Spending time at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains. #mexico #solotraveling #lapuerta #puertavallarta
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RIP #NeilSilberblatt

We honor the legacy of Nikki Giovanni with the release of her extraordinary final collection.
Through poetry and prose, she reflects on the struggles and triumphs of our times, offering moments of protest, joy, and profound introspection. Available September 2025.

Some of us have wanted to be the authors of our lives for as long as we can remember. So excuse us while we celebrate, reclaim, and share. Not for likes or external validation....but for doing it!

I'm learning to swim again
Because I forgot how to float
How to trust water like skin trusts bone

I used to glide
Back when joy was muscle memory
Back when the water remembered my body

Excerpt from "Relearning Breath"
Shani-Angela

you're not bored. you just need some hobbies.

everyday i’m (t)asked
to balance
to transform
to recondition
to live confidently in my own skin
i won’t apologize for my wild
or the way i belong to myself
i am my first love

Free, by Shani-Angela

A woman stands next to an anti LGBTQ protesting man with a sign that points to them and reads "Statistically more likely to be a sex predator more than anyone here"

Make today a great one. Happy Pride!

The legend of the bottle tree began in the Congo during the ninth century. Blue bottles were hung upside down on trees and huts as talismans to ward off evil spirits. Bottles were also tied to trees near important locations such as meeting places or crossroads to trap any spirits that were traveling

Happiest birthday my friend!
#NikkiGiovanni

Seasons shift and spin
time rewrites the earth in waves
life begins again

Eternal Cycle (a haiku)

Enjoyed spending time in the brilliance of the Wintergreen Women Writers at our 2025 retreat.

Tonight, join me live as I discuss my story in the newly released anthology 'Grandma’s Secrets.'

Now available on Amazon, Grandmother's Secrets, an anthology of tips, recipes, and wise words from our grandmothers.

Certain people are just not going to understand that the reason they don't get to participate in our lives now isn't entirely or necessarily about the past. It's about our recovery commitment to not entertain relationships that make us feel like children or garbage right now.

America doesn't care about your rights. America cares about money. Period.

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#solotravel #traveljunkie #Mexico #sanmiguel #Queretaro #shenanigans #birthdaymonth

We're not aging gracefully. We're simply aging. There's no graceful or un-graceful way to do life.

Nikki Giovanni's final interview eitj News One.
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#resist

Gardening tings.

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