Honoring the dark moon involves exploring parts of the self often kept locked away. It means transforming latent energy into something beautiful. This is the most powerful time to effect change and make art. Dark Moon Poetry & Arts exists to honor the creative feminine and non-binary powers of North Texas. We showcase poetry, music, visual art, and projects that can’t be defined by a single noun. We upset still air.
Bee aka #beethapoet is a Shreveport, LA native and the author of Everything Love, a self-published chapbook available on Amazon. She won the Under the Clock Tower poetry contest in fall of 2017. She graduated from the University of North Texas in 2014 with a B.A. in English Creative Writing and Kinesiology. She has applied to several MFA Creative Writing programs and is currently awaiting acceptance. Bee is a free-spirited, loud-mouth, goofy, and ratchet-intellectual. She believes in inspiring people of all socio-economic backgrounds, genders, and beliefs. At times, her poetry will cater to her African roots and minority groups. She has been writing poetry, short stories, and songs since the age of 11. Bee is the oldest of four, a lover of Mexican food, cooking, nature, and working out. Spring of 2018 she will be dropping a new chapbook entitled “Manipulation of My Crown.”
Jenny Ibarra is a Soul Coach, Author, and Poet who stands for Love and Liberation. She is the Founder and CEO of MindfulMamis, a purpose-driven company focused on empowering women of color and their families through the art of healing, self-love and unity. Jenny Ibarra is also a Isadora Tantra Coach, Quantum-Touch and Spirit healer and coach. She is a member of a non-Profit called The Magic of Psalm which is bringing comprehensive Sex Education to high schools. Jennifer’s professional background comes from Spanish broadcasting where she spent six years with Univision. Jennifer currently works for the Blue Zones Project in Fort Worth, Texas—a community-led well-being initiative. She is a single mom of a 4 year-old daughter who ignited her passion and fire to help women see the divine light and power within. See her work at http://mindfulmamis.com/
Maricela is a budding writer and performer. She is the youngest of seven children to Mexican parents. A Fort Worth native raising her daughter in the same city, she now writes to document and maneuver her changing landscape. She touches topics about love (past and present), family, some indifferences and lack thereof. Most recently, she has been working with Lucha Dallas Artist Collective as a poet and event host, hosting Lucha QPOC Open Mic in Fort Worth the 1st Friday of every month.
Lopa Banerjee brings us “The Journeys We Carve: Poetry and Storytelling.” She is an author, poet, editor, and translator based in Flower Mound. Her memoir 'Thwarted Escape: An Immigrant's Wayward Journey' and her debut poetry collection 'Let The Night Sing' have received honorary mentions in The Los Angeles Book Festival and New England Book Festival 2017. Her manuscript of ‘Thwarted Escape’ was First Place Category Winner at the Journey Awards 2014 hosted by Chanticleer Reviews and Media, USA. She also received The International Reuel Prize for Poetry in 2017 and The International Reuel Prize for Translation in 2016. ‘Broken Home and Other Stories,’ her translation of two novellas and six short stories of Tagore, is now available in paperback from Authorspress. Her literary work has been published in many e-zines and anthologies based in the US and India, as well as in the UK and Australia. She has co-edited three anthologies: 'Defiant Dreams: Tales of Everyday Divas,' 'Darkness There But Something More,' and 'Cloudburst: The Womanly Deluge.' She is a perennial dreamer and a hopeless romantic at heart. See her work at http://lopabanerjeewrites.com/
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