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SONYA RENEE
Sonya Renee is easily one of the most distinguished, accomplished and recognizable females in the world of Performance Poetry and rightly so. She became the National Individual Poetry Slam Champion less than a year after attending her first open mic in 2004. Sonya’s poetry has been translated into multiple languages, used as curriculum in universities across the country and abroad, and as a tool for community and national action for organizations such as the Black AIDS Institute, HIV Campus Education, and Gloria Steinem’s reproductive rights organization, Choice USA. She has also seen commercial success with appearances on HBO, Oxygen Network, BET, CNN, and MTV. Sonya’s poetry is blunt, raw, and poignant. She, herself is fearless in her reflections on the challenges of her own family history, transforming the legacy of addiction, mental illness, & homelessness into a triumphant call to action and compassion.
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