June Meeting | Poet Phetote Mshairi
Schedule
Tue Jun 18 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Center for Poets and Writers at OSU-Tulsa | Tulsa, OK
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Join us for an evening with Tulsa poet, Phetote [Fee toh tee] Mshairi. Author Bio
Phetote [Fee toh tee] Mshairi [Em shah ee ree] is an entrepreneur (New Greenwood, LLC); a Tulsa Artist Fellow; poet; author; publisher; performing artist; teaching artist; poetry slam champion; mentor; advocate; actor; songwriter; playwright; curator; host; and keynote speaker from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He earned his B.B.A. from Langston University, with a major in Business Management. Phetote is on the Poetry/Spoken-word Committee at Living Arts of Tulsa. He conducts poetry workshops and occasionally participates in the Artist in the Schools program with ahha. He is also a mentor with the 100 Black Men of Tulsa.
Mshairi started reciting poems, scriptures, and speeches at the Historic Vernon A.M.E Church on Greenwood when he was a tot. He has been writing poetry ever since he was a young child wielding a pen as a Word-smith’s apprentice. Mshairi appreciates the power of words and lives poetically.
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Where is it happening?
Center for Poets and Writers at OSU-Tulsa, 351 E John Hope Franklin Blvd, Tulsa, OK 74106-5104, United States,Tulsa, OklahomaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
