Travel and Fundraiser Update: We Did It!
            [Image description: Atena, taking a selfie is wearing wooden circular Sankofa earrings, a black KN95 mask and clear purple glasses.
        
     
    
            
    
        
        
    
        To Senegal 🇸🇳: Atena’s New Year Adventure is Coming Up!
            IF YOU APPRECIATE the creative work Atena is doing, help her get to Senegal next month 🇸🇳 for her (sooner than
        
     
    
            
    
        
    
        Reclaiming the Water: Revisited
            IF YOU APPRECIATE the creative work Atena is doing, you might be interested in helping her make it to Senegal
        
     
    
            
    
        
    
        Reading for Mid-Atlantic Review in Washington DC: ‘Letter to My Eldest Ancestor’
            If this work resonates with you, please consider supporting my upcoming trip to a writers’ retreat in Senegal next month,
        
     
    
            
    
        
    
        Welcome! I’m Atena, a Black Cultural Worker…
            Hey folks! Welcome to my blog! Here’s a video from my Patreon to learn a bit more about me
        
     
    
            
    
        
    
        Small Comfort: A Poem Inspired by Wadea al-Fayoume
            This week marks one year since the brutal, devastating murder of little Wadea al-Fayoume. Wadea was six years old when
        
     
    
            
    
        
    
        Happy Fadesgiving! on Patreon
            [Image: The design from Atena’s Montgomery Pride collection depicts a white abstract boat dock next to black waves, with
        
     
    
            
    
        
    
        Poems For All: This Little Spite of Mine…
            [Video thumbnail image: Collage: A Black Power fist forms the trunk of a tree, with neon glowing black and white