BOMBS accepts submissions for publishing consideration throughout the year.
BOMBS accepts submissions for publishing consideration throughout the year.
I prefer to write poetry, although, admittedly, I'd rather read collected essays over compiled poems. Nonetheless, composing poetry places me in a meditative space that invites me to be mindfully careful and succinct about that or for whom I am writing. I find when I write poetry, I mull over the poem for days--years even. When I am working on a poem, I am also resting--leaning into, really--my feelings. Although I also enjoy composing the creative non-fiction essay, I don't feel as contemplative writing it as I do writing the poem.
Phew. Sonia Sanchez and her blues haiku and tanka writing have inspirited so much of my writing as has Amiri Baraka's and Nikki Giovanni's Black Arts Movement style. I am also quite drawn to the literary genius of Alice Walker, Lucille Clifton, Maya Angelou, Lauryn Hill, Mos Def, and Kanye West.
Read. Read. Read. And practice (read: play with) writing. And write all the time about everything--but definitely about YOUR lived experiences as you know and feel them: joys, confusions, sorrows, dreams. Write on.
LaKeisha Swan is a wife, mom, and physical therapist who has spent her career showing up for people in their hardest moments. When her son Jonathan was diagnosed with autism, she found herself in her own hard moment — and learned, maybe for the first time, what it meant to let others show up for her.
Grounded by her faith, good therapy, and a village of people who love her family well, LaKeisha came to believe — deeply and joyfully — what Psalm 139 has always declared: that every single one of us is fearfully and wonderfully made. This book is her way of sharing that truth with as many children and families as possible.
LaKeisha earned her bachelor's degree in physical therapy from Florida A&M University, her master's in health promotion from UNC-Charlotte, and her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Alabama State University. She is a board-certified specialist in geriatric physical therapy.
She and her husband David are the proud parents of Kristen and Jonathan. To know LaKeisha is to know someone who thinks in music, speaks in lyrics, and fills every room she enters with warmth. She plays, she sings, she moves through life like there's always a soundtrack running — and honestly, for her, there is.
Her people call her "Kool Keish" for a reason: she has a gift for making everyone around her feel seen, celebrated, and at home. It's that same gift — the instinct to meet people exactly where they are — that makes her such a passionate advocate for children on the spectrum and the families who love them. She knows firsthand that acceptance isn't just a value, it's a practice. And she's committed to modeling it, one relationship — and now one book — at a time.
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