Nataki Suggs Appears at Sunday Kind of Love: A Busboys & Poetry Event
Nataki Suggs will be reciting some of her poetry from her book, A Life Beyond Limits: Overcoming Private Pain, during the open mic segment of the Sunday Kind of Love: A Busboys & Poetry Event which starts at 5:00pm on August 19, 2007 at Busboys & Poets, 14th & V Streets, NW in Washington, DC. It is free and open to the public.
Nataki Suggs is a poet, author, wife and mother of two. Born and raised in the metropolitan Washington, DC area, Suggs began writing at a young age. By the age of eleven, she had already won first place in a poetry writing contest. When the prime of adolescence hit Suggs’ life, some experiences halted her knack for writing. However overcoming these same trials caused her to remember and rebirth her passion for writing.
Over the years, Suggs has used her writing as a therapeutic expression. Her poetry cries out to those who feel as if they are alone in their struggles and attempts to give them feelings of hope and freedom. Although she doesn’t hold a formal degree, she believes that overcoming trials are her greatest achievements. Through her works, it is her goal to invoke change in people’s lives.
In her spare time, she reads motivational books. She also finds time to volunteer for Hospice. Since another one of her passions is youth, she is currently a substitute teacher at Laurel High School of Prince George’s County, Maryland. In the midst of everything in her life, she always gives credence to the Lord Jesus Christ because without Him, she knows that she wouldn’t have a story to tell, a poem to write, or a life to live.
Suggs is the author of A Life Beyond Limits: Overcoming Private Pain which was published by Xpress Yourself Publishing in June 2007.
Her book, A Life Beyond Limits: Overcoming Private Pain, has been listed under July 2007 Best Seller List at Xpress Your Publishing. Suggs was recently interviewed by irocktalkradio.com with Jerry Royce on July 3, 2007. She was also interviewed by Afrika Midnight Asha Abney on July 14, 2007.
For further information visit http://www.authorsden.com/natakisuggs and http://www.natakisuggs.blogspot.com/
About A Life Beyond Limits: Overcoming Private Pain
A Life Beyond Limits: Overcoming Private Pain depicts Nataki Suggs' struggle of confronting the truth about her past, illustrating how she was able to find stability and hope after she truly found God. Her relationship with God created a stable foundation for her to continue climbing the ladder of success, confirming there is nothing she can do without Christ. Even when she could not see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel, she found that at the end, there was God's promise of freedom. Line by line, allow your heart to experience the hope that can be captured when there seems to be none. . . A Life Beyond Limits: Overcoming Private Pain
A Life Beyond Limits: Overcoming Private Pain was published by Xpress Yourself Publishing in June 2007 and consists of 80 pages. The cover and Interior Designed by The Writer’s Assistant.
A Life Beyond Limits: Overcoming Private Pain is available at
-xpressyourselfpublishing.org
- amazon.com
- Karibu Books
-Barnes and Noble
For further information about A Life Beyond Limits: Overcoming Private Pain, please visit
http://authorsden.com/visit/viewwork.asp?AuthorID=64358
About Sunday Kind of Love
Sunday Kind of Love has been going since January, 2006. Some of the poets who have been featured are Esther Iverem, Tim Seibles, Patricia Smith, Kathi Wolfe, Brian Gilmore, Terence Winch, Francisco Aragon, Brian Gilmore, and Kenny Carroll. Sunday Kind of Love’s upcoming features include Josh Weiner, Kyle Dargan, and Heather Davis. Sunday Kind of Love is free and open to the public. The event includes featured readers and concludes with an open mic and is hosted by Sarah Browning of DC Poets Against the War and Regie Cabico of Sol & Soul. Featured readers segment starts at 4:00pm and open mic segment starts at 5:00pm. It takes place every third Sunday of the month.
About the Hosts
Sarah Browning of DC Poets Against the War and Regie Cabico of Sol & Soul.
Sarah Browning is the coeditor of D.C. Poets Against the War: An Anthology and coordinator of the group of the same name, which has been active since the first national day of poetry against the war, February 12, 2003. Her first book of poems, Whiskey in the Garden of Eden, which was recently released from The Word Works.
Sarah’s poems have been published in dozens of journals, including the Seattle Review, Sycamore Review, and Shenandoah. She is the recipient of a D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities Individual Artist Grant and the People Before Profits Poetry Prize. For further information about her visit http://sarahbrowning.blogspot.com/
DC Poets Against the War is an informal group of Washington area writers and activists who came together during the winter of 2003 to protest the planned U.S. invasion of Iraq. For further information about DC Poets Against the War, please visit them at http://www.dcpaw.org/
Sol & Soul promotes, nutures, supports, and presents the work of socially-conscious established and emerging artists. For further visit http://www.solysoul.com/
For more information about Sunday Kind of Love, contact Sarah Browning at womenarts2(at)aol.com
Readings made possible in part by a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, a public agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
