"Arm Your Voice" Hygienic's Poetry Series feat. Attallah Sheppard

April 20th

Arm Your Voice
The Hygienic Poetry Series
featuring Attallah Sheppard from New London, CT.

Monthly, third Wednesdays from 6pm to 8pm.

Doors open at 6pm -- from 6:30 to 7:15 we will have our featured poet, intermission, followed by an all ages open mic from 7:30 to 8pm.

"Arm Your Voice" serves as an opportunity for poets of all skill levels to network and showcase their work. The monthly series is coordinated by Hygienic's own resident artist, the talented Travis Gibbs. "Arm Your Voice" will open with a Featured Poet who will engage a diverse audience with an impactful and entertaining performance. The featured poet will be followed by an intermission and Open Mic portion of the night, which serves as a great opportunity for new or novice poets to earn their spot as a Featured Poet!


**The Open Mic is first come, first serve, and each poet is limited to four minutes.

Attallah Sheppard is a passionate spoken word poet and community activist

hailing from in New London, CT. Attallah fuses her passions for spoken

word and “writing” the wrongs in our world as an ‘artivist’---- using her

craft as a vehicle to explore and expose stories of social justice, love and the

ever present conditions of the human family. She writes from the heart in

hopes that her words and work will help uplift, inspire and transform

individuals and communities alike. She firmly believes in the weight of the

quote, “Speak your truth even if your voices shakes”.

Born and raised in New London, Attallah cultivated her passion for the arts

and social change as a founding member of Writer’s Block Ink, an

educational arts non-profit whose mission is to “ignite social change on the

page and the stage”. As a champion for change on a communal and global

level, she uses poetry and performance art as tools to aid in reshaping

societal views on things like race, classism and education to create a brighter

future for tomorrow. She also does a great deal of work around empowering

our young people assist in this work by finding and sharing their

voices/stories, one verse at a time

Attallah is the 2008 Poetry Out Loud Connecticut State Champion and

currently serves as a Teaching Artist for Poetry Out loud, working to

connect young people to the art of poetry. She is a Teaching Artist with the

Connecticut Writing Project of Fairfield University, where she facilitates

various poetry writing workshops and young adult literacy labs in schools

across the Connecticut and New York.

Attallah has appeared in the Power of Words Connecticut Writing Project

anthology as well as in the journal, Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young

Adult Literature.