Ray Jane
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Ray Jane

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Ray Jane is a Black female poet born in Brooklyn and raised in Far Rockaway, Queens. She uses her poetry to lift herself and other women of color. Always aiming to strengthen her voice, Ray Jane won the Verb Benders slam poetry team’s inaugural poetry slam (2022), and was invited to perform in Yale Peabody Museum’s Annual MLK Jr Black History Month Slam (2022, 2023). Ray Jane recently published her first collection of poems entitled Black Like That. She is published in the literary magazine I Can't Breathe, Lalibreta: An Online Poetry Journal for Women in Creative Rebellion (2021, 2022), TESORO: 1st Anniversary Firesingers, Snarl: A Journal for Literature and Art and was a contributing editor for the poetry anthology dedicated to nature entitled Love Letters to Gaia. She has had a number of features including, but not limited to: NYC Poetry Festival (2021-2023); “Digital Verse” sponsored by The Nuyorican Poets Café and The Green Space; Urban Beat Poet Society and ELKAT Productions “Open Mic Series”; Tantalizing Productions “The Art of Seduction”; and Pregones/PRRT’s Stage Garden Rumba (2021, 2022). She has participated in poetic writing workshops focused on empowering women like “RoblesWrites Presents: Respite, Write, and Release™”. Ray Jane has also moderates her own workshops with ¡Oyé Group! Poet’s Corner (2021 and 2022), Art Defined Inc (2022- present), and ran her own open mics as the host of The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Thursday Night Online Open mic (2022- 2023) and for her own show “Freestyle Fridays” presented by The Word Is Write (2021-2023).You can hear more of how she uses her voice in over 50 recorded poems on SoundCloud and her website.
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    • Black Like That

    • Poems from a Conduit
    • By: Ray Jane
    • Narrated by: Ray Jane
    • Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-2023
    • Language: English
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