Author: Talicha J.

Talicha J. is an American Poet, Spoken Word Artist and Aspiring Novelist. In 2010 she was a member of the Respect Da Mic Slam team based in Charlotte, NC. Earlier this year she released her debut poetry album, In the Making. Talicha also competed on a national level for the first time at the Women of the World Poetry Slam and the Individual World Poetry Slam this year, ranking among the top 40 and top 30 respectively. She is currently working on her debut book of poetry and planning her first American tour. Her work has appeared in Four Quarters Magazine, Concrete Generation Magazine, and Boston Poetry Magazine.

What I Never Wrote by Talicha J.

Posted on Feb 24, 2015Mar 6, 2019 by Talicha J.

was how he wasn’t really my first, she was. We were explorers of the other’s curves. Our fingers, teeth and lips were ships. Our hands traversed islands of flesh as we stripped away the idea of who we should be, and who we should love, those social handcuffs unlocking at the shrine of our tangled […]

My Favorite Photograph of Us by Talicha J.

Posted on Jan 13, 2015Mar 6, 2019 by Talicha J.

This is where I like to go before I get to the cracked vase of our life together. The places we once existed but no longer fit right, taken at a time before things didn’t make sense, not because I couldn’t understand them but because I was a child, I shouldn’t have had to. A […]

Reasons Why Loving You Was More Entertaining Than Watching Prime Time Television by Talicha J.

Posted on Dec 11, 2014Mar 6, 2019 by Talicha J.

You once walked around for two weeks with a broken hand calling it a sprain, before I could convince you to go to the campus infirmary. You returned with a faulty grin and an entire cast of you told me so’s in its cracks. Not long after the bone healed you second degree branded your […]