New Rhythms, New Rhymes: Spotlight on Local Poets
By Dakota Parks for Inweekly “Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought … And where that language does not...
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Feb 295 min read
From the Stage to the Page with LaChelle McCormick Johns
By Dakota Parks for Inweekly If you’ve ever attended Pensacola Poetry on a Tuesday night, you’ve probably heard LaChelle McCormick Johns...
Jan 1, 20223 min read
When Queens Link Up: Empowering Black Women Entrepreneurs in Pensacola
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Since 2019, the quarterly marketplace and social event, When Queens Link Up, has been growing and...
Nov 1, 20215 min read
Symphonic Serenades: Pensacola Symphony Orchestra Returns with Packed Season
By Dakota Parks for Pensacola Magazine For attendees, a night at the symphony is about more than a love of music. It’s also the...
Feb 1, 20215 min read
Haiku Slam: Counting Syllables and Connecting Community
By Dakota Parks for Pensacola Magazine Back in 1980s Chicago at the Green Mill Jazz Club, a group of local poets were trying to get the...
Nov 1, 20206 min read
A Joyous Defiance: The Poetry of Charles McCaskill
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Lost in the clutches of a fantasy novel or scouring the pages of journals and composition notebooks,...
Apr 1, 20204 min read
The Perseverance of the Pensacola Poetry Scene
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd When tracing through the history of the Pensacola poetry scene, the first word out of most local...
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