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To contact Honorée for a reading, please email her at honoreejeffers@gmail.com
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers has performed and read her creative work in venues across the nation. She teaches creative writing at the University of Oklahoma, where she is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing Coordinator.
Here’s what people have to say about Honoree’s readings:
“Honorée Jeffers lights up any room she enters. The music of her poetry, the warmth of her voice, her energy, her humor, and her passion make her both a fine poet and a memorable performer and teacher.” —David Lynn, Professor of English, and editor of the Kenyon Review
“Anyone who’s had the pleasure of reading Honorée Jeffers’s poems—or of hearing her read them—knows that she’s a blues poet with things to say and new ways of saying them…she uses everyday language and she makes it sing.” —Ed Ochester, editor of American Poetry Now: The Pitt Poetry Series Anthology and author of Unreconstructed: Poems New and Selected
Really enjoyed the thoughtful discussion on relationships, as well as you other writing.
I just read your article on Chris brown, and boy am I glad. I needed to see things from a more clear perspective and you really provided it. I along with a lot of the black community have been excusing his actions in the heated fight he had with Rhianna because of his youth and immaturity, but you are right he did commit a crime punishable by the law and not a mistake. Perhaps he really does need strong psychiatric help, and maybe he should have had to serve a prison sentence of some kind instead of just community service, which is really just a slap on the wrist for what he did. Although it this action did affect his record sales and radio play, you are right he was never really punished for his crime so how can he learn from it. If he was a white man doing this to a stranger, he would have been in jail. I think it is because his victim was a woman that he was not sent to jail, this society still does not attach the value it needs to the lives of women even when they are threatened with violence or death esp at the hands of their partners. We blame the victim for having a part in their own abuse by not leaving. we are not paid the same as men even the same professions often with either the same or even more training, there’s always a separate scale or a line of demarcation between us esp in terms of treatment in certain situations and rewards received through work or prestige. this crime he committed was made less than because it was against a woman and not just any one a black woman. all women of color seem to be devalued in today’s society, we are either over sexualized or objectified in videos(often on BET), cast as empty minded gold digger’s or painted as impossible overly aggressive career women with a superwoman complex just because in most things we would like to have equal opportunities and rights as men in most situations! I guess we will have a long time to wait for this kind of change to occur, as things have not really improved as much as we’d like to believe even in this day and age.
Thanks for your post. I called Janice Brewer yesterday to express my disgust at her behavior, which by any measure is abhorent! This man is just a blessing to this country in these perilous times.
What a wonderful father, husband and leader he is… He’s got my vote