MYSTIX POETS is beyond excited to announce the PREMIERE of Tureeda Mikell's devotional oration!
Scheduled for 12 noon Pacific Time, Monday, August 24.
Tureeda a.k.a. Toreadah—Story
Medicine Woman, named, D'jeli Musa, (Woman of Truths), called an
activist for holism, is a Chi Gong Energy Therapist, lyricist, and
executive director of, Tree of Life Foundation Health Literacy Project.
Award winning poet, published nationally and internationally. Published
over seventy at risk student poetry anthologies via CA Poets in the
Schools, throughout San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, and Jefferson
Unified School Districts since 1989.
She is UC Berkeley’s ’96 Bay Area Writing Project Summer Fellow. Featured performer at SOAN, (Soul of A Nation), De Young Museum, Jan 2020, De Young Museum Fire Thieves Feb. 2020, featured poet curated by Kim Shuck, National Academy of Poets. UPROAR, Power to the Poets, July 2020, Wake Up America, July 2020.
Featured poet/storyteller for Black Panther 50th Anniversary, Octavia Butler’s 70th Birthday, and Eth-Noh-Tec’s, Nu Wa delegate poet/storyteller in Beijing, China in collaboration with the University of Beijing, 2018. Works have appeared in, Drum Voices Revue, Southern Illinois University, U. C. B. Digital Papers, E-Zine. Anacua Literary Arts Journal, Temba Tupu, Walking Naked Anthology -Emory University, Dr. Warren, editor. Black Gold an Anthology of Black Poetry, Dr. Jahn. Civil Liberties Anthology, Shizue Seigel, and many more.
Most recent publication is her full collection, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine, released February 2020, published by Nomadic Press. This book was placed on Small Press Distributor’s list of recommended reads.
She is UC Berkeley’s ’96 Bay Area Writing Project Summer Fellow. Featured performer at SOAN, (Soul of A Nation), De Young Museum, Jan 2020, De Young Museum Fire Thieves Feb. 2020, featured poet curated by Kim Shuck, National Academy of Poets. UPROAR, Power to the Poets, July 2020, Wake Up America, July 2020.
Featured poet/storyteller for Black Panther 50th Anniversary, Octavia Butler’s 70th Birthday, and Eth-Noh-Tec’s, Nu Wa delegate poet/storyteller in Beijing, China in collaboration with the University of Beijing, 2018. Works have appeared in, Drum Voices Revue, Southern Illinois University, U. C. B. Digital Papers, E-Zine. Anacua Literary Arts Journal, Temba Tupu, Walking Naked Anthology -Emory University, Dr. Warren, editor. Black Gold an Anthology of Black Poetry, Dr. Jahn. Civil Liberties Anthology, Shizue Seigel, and many more.
Most recent publication is her full collection, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine, released February 2020, published by Nomadic Press. This book was placed on Small Press Distributor’s list of recommended reads.
