Fellow Upriser,
I am looking forward to being with you at the Rebel Wind Poetry Uprising tonight (Thursday, 1.26) at Bittersweet Kitchen
– Terry Rumsey
TONIGHT! Thursday, January 26, 2023
7:00 PM Start Time
Bittersweet Kitchen https://eatatbittersweet.com/
18 South Orange Street
Media, PA 19063
Featured Reader: Toni Love – Celebrated author, performer, poet, & singer
Poet of Ceremonies: Terry Rumsey – Political activist, social commentaor, & writer
Open Poetry Reading to Follow Featured Reading
Baked goods, coffee, tea, and cider will be available for sale tonight. Please support Bittersweet Kitchen, since they are supporting performance poetry.
Fearless #original poetry
Fearless ~ #originalpoetry
Sometimes you have to forget that you’re somebody’s momma, someone else’s nurturer, someone else’s provider, boss, therapist, housecleaner, mentor, hero and role model and just be. Be free. Be in spaces and places no one would expect you to be. Hair and toes out, dancing /swaying/moving/ calling in joy, calling in Josephine Baker, Dorothy Dandridge and every ancestor who conspired to form your hips, lips and freedom.
Be seen, be joyfilled, be unapologetic, be around people eager to give without expectation of receiving. Just once my beloved sisters, be fearless. Be free.
Repeat often until it’s comfortable.
❤️M. Tonita Austin aka Toni Love (c) 1.4.23
A Rebel Wind Poetry Uprising!
I’m excited to be featuring at the Rebel Wind Poetry Uprising held at my favorite breakfast spot in Media, Bittersweet Kitchen. This event on January 26th at 7pm is hosted by Terry Rumsey who will also be reading. Come early to sign up for the open mic. Seating is limited. There will be coffee, tea, cake, hot cider and other goods available for sale. There is no fee to get in so please support this business. They do amazing work in our community.
I will also have my books for sale and if you purchase Toni’s Room in advance, I’d be honored to sign it for you. I hope to see you on the 26th!
Love, Toni ❤️
Kiss 💋 #original poetry
Kiss
Kiss
These lips
They are eager for your gentle touch
The anticipation of soft skin against skin
Tender
Moist
Oh how I love the sensation of your tongue
Gliding ever so slowly around my oval
Moving deeper inside
Teasing my anticipation
Increasing my drive
Feeling warmth and compassion each time our lips collide
I can’t take the multiple explosions anymore
So I moan some form of your name
Begging you to come up for air
To give these lips
One
More
Kiss
1/2/16 Toni Love
Catch Toni Love on Facebook Live ❤ August 6th, 7PM EST
Sewey Hole Family presents Bruiz and Friends , a Live poetry reading filmed at the infamous Pen and Pencil club in Philadelphia. The event including poetry readings from James Feichthaler, Bob Zell and myself, Toni Love will ONLY be viewed on the Facebook page of Keith Outlaw so visit the Event page to access the link to watch us live.
I hope you are able to check out the show. I will be reading a few new poems but please support and grab a copy of my poetry book or CD from my website and I’d be happy to autograph it for you.
Love always,
Toni ❤️
My ODE to George (Original Poetry)
My ODE to George.
The first night of your trial I stood waiting for my son to return home.
The cops showed up first after stopping him for running.
My heart jumped outside of my chest as I struggled to prepare myself for the worst.
As he does every night,
he was running
Running in his own neighborhood.
Running at night because as a black boy He knows that black men who run in the daytime get chased and murdered.
So he runs to feel freedom in the dark of the night.
Stopped just minutes from his home by four police vehicles.
That’s 4 x 2 officers approaching a 19 year old boy who wanted to run but by the grace of God stood still.
Anxiety. Heart racing. Traumatized. Sweating. Sweating. Breathing.
Refusing the courtesy ride home in the back of the police car.
He was innocent.
No apologies for being accused of fitting the description of someone who was running and not doing anything but fitting the description of every black boy profiled.
A black boy running at night.
The cops told me that he wasn’t running when they stopped him. Thank God, I thought.
Because black boys who run get murdered.
So today I feel sad for you and all of the children we’ve lost to racism.
Today I selfishly thank you.
Thank you George for your life because it may have saved the life of my son.
A black boy who just wanted to breathe fresh air.
A black boy who just wants to feel freedom.
I pray for him.
I honor You.
You couldn’t breathe but he will breathe and run and stop and take breath and return home again today
I pray .
~ M. Tonita Austin aka Toni Love
written on the second anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. 5.25.22
May 18th Moonstone Arts #livepoetry Zoom Link !
Hey I hope you’re coming out on May 18th to check me out. I’ll be reading from my book Toni’s Room along with these fabulous poets at Fergie’s pub. But if you cannot then click the link below to get all the information you need to register for the virtual zoom reading. I hope you can join either way, but if you come out, you can get on the open mic. ♥️All my love, Toni
#loveistheanswer
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Save the date! May 18th
Wednesday May 18, 2022 – 7pm
Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required
Come out and hang with me in the City!
I’m excited to share my poetry for the first time at a Moonstone Arts Center event with these gifted poets! There will be an open mic and loads of fun and poetry ❤️. I will also have copies of my book “Toni’s Room” for sale and if you already have a copy and want it signed, please bring it with you. They make wonderful Mother’s day gifts.
I hope to see you on the 18th!
#love #TonisRoomBookLaunch #tonilove #artishealing
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Bring a poem, bring a friend April 6th, 2022 to Mad Poets Society, 7pm!
Repost from the Mad Poets Society of PA newsletter:
Friends and fans of poetry! Our next First Wednesday poetry reading, at 7:00 p.m. on April 6, will feature two wonderful poets: Tonita Austin, aka Toni Love, and James Feichthaler!
The reading will take place in the Ballroom, *upstairs* at the Community Arts Center, 414 Plush Mill Rd., Wallingford, PA. If anyone has questions or needs info about the CAC elevator, contact series host Sibelan Forrester at <sforres1@swarthmore.edu> or leave voicemail at (610) 328-8162.
Light refreshments will be served, and an Open Mic will follow the featured reading.
TONIGHT! Poetic Memoir Intensive with #Ursula Rucker
This intensive word/ thought/ emotion, self-truth-culling, seeks to be a journey of healing, art, therapy, and authentic conversations about life that will result in the creation of individual works/excerpts of EPIC memoir poetry. Each student is invited to perform their created works at this live-streamed event.
Check out the live streamed event on the SIFT Media 215 You Tube Channel tonight, Sunday January 30th from 6-7:30 PM. It’s a creative masterpiece to heal your soul, with the finale by Ursula Rucker!
Toni's Room 