Episode 08- Jaylene Clark Owens
Jaylene Clark Owens is my guest today and I could not be happier! Jaylene is an award winning actress, gifted play write, and captivating spoken work poet. She has a newly released book called Afro Poetic. " In this collection of spoken word poems, dating from 2005 through 2019, Jaylene poetically responds to current events, injustice, body image, love, and other subjects that have impacted her world".
We speak about her social-justice oriented work such as Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer Whale , So Ha, and Ride or Die Chick. All of these circulating on topics like gentrification and the black experience - specifically black women. We also touch on her poem My Voice, My Choice and what it means to decolonize that idea of what is deemed "appropriate" for black people (or anyone for that matter) to speak, and that there is true beauty in the accents and dialects that we use. Below are links to her book and website- you can also find Jaylene's Poems and artist statement on theliberationpodcast.com !
Website/Book: https://www.jayleneclarkowens.com/shop
Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer Whale: http://www.harlemkwproject.com
