Meet Tai!
Our SUTP Spotlight is on Tai Gooden. She’s a freelance writer and published poet. Her first poetry book, Amour Rising, was published in April 2014. It is available through Createspace. (***pause take a moment to shop***). She maintains a personal blog and has written for BlackLoveForum.com. Her personal blog,www.taigooden.com, focuses on love, celebrities, relationships, music, and inspirational material. As a published poet, freelance writer, and blogger- she has had the privilege to connect to the world through words! In doing so, she most recently featured on a HuffPost Live segment about mental health stigmas in the Black community and the untimely passing of Karyn Washington. She is very passionate about poetry and would like to share her poetry with others as well as hear poetry from great poets! (Don’t we love that here at Spreading Unity Through Poetry~)
Tai so kindly shared a poem with us here at Unity Through Poetry ( Spreading UTP). See below or click link: Black Girl Genes
Black Girl Genes
I don’t have
A face like
Beyoncé
And my hair
Doesn’t cascade like
Jhené.
I love those famous girls
Living their dreams
But they make it so hard
For my beauty to be seen.
Black boys don’t like me
They don’t wanna wife me
And it’s more than likely
Cause I’m twiggy
My hair is wiry
My nose spreads widely
My skin’s like Hershey’s
I need some mixed genes
I need to fill out my jeans
To satisfy the beauty queen fiends.
**Actually, I don’t…
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Tai Gooden
Freelance Writer| Author| Blogger
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Twitter: @TaiGooden
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