Empress J is a quadruple threat in the entertainment industry. She is a singer, writer, dancer, and actress/producer. Empress founded and is the CEO of Healing Out Loud Theatre & TV Productions, Island Fete Fitness Dance Company, and Empress J Music. She is CEO and Co-Founder of the AfriCaribbean Festival an international project bringing together the Caribbean and African Cultures. She has tackled the music industry, as well as the poetry scene.
Public Poetry Reading (2015)
January 15, 2015. Takoma Park Community Center auditorium, Takoma Park, MD. The Greta Ehrig segment begins with an introduction by Takoma Park Poet Laureate Merrill Leffler at minute mark 41:57.
Year: 2015
Details: Begin at minute mark 41:57.
Public Poetry Reading (2019)
April 18, 2019. Takoma Park, MD, Community Center Auditorium. Greta Ehrig is featured at minute mark 35:50.
Medium: Public Poetry Reading
Year: 2019
Details: begins at minute mark 35:50
Mixed Media artist focused on painting and graphic arts.
Ashley Elizabeth (she/her) is a Baltimore-based poet and winner of the 2024 Garden Party Collective Chapbook Contest. She is a Pushcart-nominated writer and educator whose work has appeared in SWWIM, Voicemail Poems, Rigorous, and Sage Cigarettes, among others. She is the author of four chapbooks, including red line and CHARM(ed). Her debut full-length, A Family Thing, is out now from ELJ Editions. Find her on IG and Twitter @ae_thepoet or her website aetheblkpoet.com Ashley lives with her parter and her cats. Note: Ashley is Black before she is anything else.
My name is Dr. Nicole, and I am an author, educator and literary coach. I have a doctoral degree from George Mason University in Education. I am also the author of two books and a collection of poems. My books are inspiring stories about overcoming difficult circumstances.