Elizabeth Pascalle Brooks
Tampa, FL
Quick Facts:
Celebrated by Saint Leo University Florida as a Contemporary Black Poet.
Occupation: REFIRED: author, performance poet.
Publications:
Recent: “Unleashed: Celebrating My Dignity” 2022.
Huffington Post, Indiana Voice Journal, Spiritfire Review; Columnist. A Call to Love.
Chapbook “You May Applaud Now” 2016.
Performance at Middle Schools, Churches, University Campus, at student events and in psychology, and sociology classrooms.
Recipient of Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for Outstanding and Invaluable Service to the Community, in the City of Pasadena CA awarded by Congressman Adam Schiff.
Occupation
Librarian ll: La Pintoresca Branch, Pasadena, CA.
Place of Birth: Trinidad and Tobago
DOB: May 6th 1947
Parents: Robert Malcolm and Gerardina Brooks
Siblings: Mary Linda, Angela M, and Judith Parker-Crogman
Children: Max and Marc Quint Luces
Grandchildren: Krystin Alexis Wills and Kaylin Luces
Great-granddaughter: Maria C. Wills
Education: Robert H. Lehman College of
The City University of New York, Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, Magna Cum Laude.
Pratt Institute, Master of Science (Library and Information Science).
Trained New York Public Librarian
Certificate of Continuing Education: Coaching, Criticism & Discipline Skills for Managers and Supervisors
Unleashed
Celebrating My Dignity
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Every poem she writes, she memorizes. Therefore, you hear her spirit as you read her words. Moments that leave you speechless, renders you amazed and celebrating the author and poet. Elizabeth P. Brooks told her story as art when it should have been headline news, even though it may have happened to you as well.
"Unleashed looks you in your eyes and dares you to outstare it. Yet together with the boldness of its challenge, this book extends it's hands and invites you out onto a dance floor pulsating with the rhythms of self actualization.
Brooks wants us to know that although trauma and injustice may scorch you, flame can be repurposed to cauterize wounds. Poet Sonia Sanchez has asked, "Where is your fire?" Brooks in Unleashed responds: 'I am my fire, ' 'fire burning brightly.' " Angel Jimenez