Doin' it big in Bmore

Do I rave about my students enough? Not nearly. So here's more: Halloween weekend me and my CCP homie, English Prof Leslye Friedberg, took several students with us to Baltimore to give a presentation at the Community College Humanities Association Eastern Division Conference. They/we were repping the Spoken Word Poetry Club and the CAP Literary Magazine. They shared some poems and conversed with the profs in the audience, who in turn called the students "inspiring." That they are.

So that's all of us in the photo above. We just don't know what to do with ourselves, we're so cute. Anyway. from left to right, seated: Stephen, me, Steve, Kim, Leslye, Rell. And standing above us all, Lindo.

Things to remember: Phillies parade, shrimp trio (aka Rell's appetite), dinner conversation (aka guys who don't show emotion and prejudging people), we-know-you're-cold-as-hell-in-that-costume, sexy GPS voices, $10 open mics (WTF!), ghetto-geekin', deep anti-love poems, flinging pens, cabs that won't stop for black men at midnight, "What the fuck do you mean you don't know where the Sheraton is?", Sheraton lobby, tense elevator rides, PIG cops, Lindo "breaks bread" with Rell (WTF?!), sleeping habits, B-harbor, Flying Kings, Time flies . . .

Special thanks to Leslye and the CAP Literary Magazine, and Matthew Shupp in Student Life for making this trip possible. You two are the best.

Peace and love always,
Michelle