Poetry and Positive Rap

by Bessie Frazier



Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 12/2/2009

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 76
ISBN : 9781449040178

About the Book

Her poems and raps are inspirational with powerful messages. Readers will experience positive emotions as they deal with stressful situations and feel a sense of confidence and hope.

 

POETRY AND POSITIVE RAP

 

From stressful situations,

love, life, family, culture, history, humanity, endurance, determination,

"ambition, self-esteem, pride, and social issues.


About the Author

Bessie Frazier was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and majored in English and Sociology. While at Fisk, she became a member of the Fisk Writer’s Workshop, under John Oliver Killens.

 

A year after graduating from Fisk, she received a M.A. degree from Montclair State College in New Jersey. She completed post graduate work at Brooklyn College and New York University. She is the author of poems, stories, plays and raps, and has performed for schools, colleges, churches and special interest groups receiving standing ovations. Her work has appeared in anthologies, magazines and the Amsterdam News. She has been featured in Who’s Who in the East and received countless letters of praise from electrified readers.