Hey y’all! So this week we have our first featured
guest/artist here at the Artistry Corner. I am so blessed and so honored to
introduce you to my dear friend and fellow poet, Ms. Ida Wilson! Shout out to
her for agreeing to be my first feature on here in support of the Corner LOL.
Check out her work & more about her below…
This Week's Featured Artist...
~Poet~
Ida Wilson
An Oakland Native and recent University of California, Riverside graduate, Ida is
an ambitious and conscious young intellectual with an intense love for words.
She’s been writing short, powerful pieces since elementary school and uses them
as means of conveying her inner most thoughts and feelings. Fashionable and
prepared to take the world of Anthropological Academia by storm, she has
recently begun her first year of graduate study at San Jose State University in
hopes of one day obtaining her Ph.D. and becoming Cultural Anthropologist.
Despite her busy schedule and budding academic career, she still takes time out
to jot down few pieces, which like her, are small and petite, but pack a
powerful, memorable punch. Please welcome Ms. Ida Wilson…
1. When did you first start writing?
“I actually started writing in 2nd grade. It
started because we had to write a poem in one of my teacher’s class, and I
wrote this poem about rain. My teacher was so excited about it, she gassed me
up completely. *giggles* I got to leave class early to show all the other
teachers and stuff, and it just made me want to keep writing. Because someone
took a lot of interest in it, I just kept doing it.”
2. Why do you write?
“I express myself better through writing.
Sometimes I can’t say things *laughs* it’s easier for me to write it down. A
lot of times I write if I’m feeling a particular way, it’s easier for me to
communicate my feelings through writing. When I’m feeling a particular way it’s
just easier for me to write about it, than say it sometimes.”
3. What do you usually write about?
“My feelings mostly, so like if I’m feeling
really, really sad or if I feel bothered by something or I’m feeling a
particular way about something I just write it down.”
4. How do you write? Is there any specific
structure to your work?
“I like short poems, and a lot of my poems are really,
really short. A lot of rhyming *laughs* I don’t know, I’m just really fond of
rhyming. But usually my poems are short and to the point.”
5. What is your purpose in writing?
“Hopefully, I can vividly express how I’m
feeling through writing, and do something for someone else who needs it. Maybe
they feel a certain way that I do, and they’re just like ‘that’s dope, I have
the same sentiments’. Just being relatable really.”
6. 5 facts to know about you
1-I think I was born in the wrong era, I feel like should’ve
been born in the 50’s during swing & doo-wop.
2-I like artificial flowers
3-I’m an introvert
4-I’m going to be an Anthropologist
5-I don’t like talking about myself.
7. Ways to connect with you?
My Instagram is @vintagedolll
But to really get to know me and know about me more intimately
is through my blog, my Tumblr which is soundlessshouts.tumblr.com and that’s it
‘cause I don’t need people to know my facebook *laughs*
Check out
some of her work below...
I
feel like: my city’s drowning in tears of mourning ones who show their feelings
through silence
All
the malice, crimes internally leading love in flames through acts of violence
Instead
of enjoying a summer breeze people seek relief in blowing trees
For
the high is the only place that nostalgia will allow them to dream and feel
their memories
And
sadly the one thing that guarantee to bring people together is grief
Government
assistance and rising tension. No jobs, so the block is the place where one can
be pretentious.
Fast
money, cash money shit it’s still money Young girl prowls the night in heels
because she feel that she’s missing something…
Graves
filled with bodies and all the broken hearts that were buried with them these
buried bodies’ wandering souls leaves the city grim
When
will love enter, take control and win?
My
city, my city its a good city I want it to be the place full hope, no dope city
A
place that’s not a diamond in rough or a gritty city
Hope
you enjoy this week's feature, stay tuned for our next artist spot, until next
time beautiful people...
Peace
& Positivity,
Dij
:)
