Alexandria Eregbu

The Creative Anthropologist | 🌍 Celebrating Art, Music + Poetry 🌱 Living and sharing stories along the way.💡

[Alexandria Eregbu @findingijeoma]

A woman is not defined by her uncertainty but by her plentitude.

[Alexandria Eregbu @findingijeoma]

Exactly this! 🎯

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@ObongAnwanSalem Amazing!!! Thank you 🙌🏾😭💙

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I’m still waiting on my Spill invite…

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Thank you Megha for this question today.

[Alexandria Eregbu @findingijeoma]

“Are you sure that you are communicating the urgency of your work?”

-A message to fellow artists, brethren, and sisters in creativity

[Nnedi Okorafor, PhD🕷️ @Nnedi]

Words of wisdom from the great Ursula K. Le Guin. Alllll this.

Especially: “Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art.”

[Alexandria Eregbu @findingijeoma]

Your creativity is also your wealth. Protect it fiercely.
Share it with discernment.
Water your creative faculties often so that your wealth may remain plentiful.

[Alexandria Eregbu @findingijeoma]

If,
A poem — from ‘poein’ means ‘to create’

And,
its definition is: something that arouses strong emotions because of its beauty

Then,
the purpose of my art is to make poems everyday. Like Octavia, I want to ‘make people FEEL!’ Creativity is currency. Poetry is power.

[Alexandria Eregbu @findingijeoma]

home is a made up place
drawn by imaginary lines
reinforced
by blood and water.

home is both the story we tell ourselves
and the pattern we covertly design for generations to come.

[Alexandria Eregbu @findingijeoma]

The way Serato changed the game with this stems function babyyyyyy

[Alexandria Eregbu @findingijeoma]

My mother is a warrior. She taught me to be a better prayer.

“Ask God for perfect will in all circumstances”

“Do not use limiting language”

“Ask God for perfect sight, beyond what you can imagine.”

Through her, I learned that words can shape as precisely as they can undo.

[Alexandria Eregbu @findingijeoma]

When does loss of story become an ecological crisis?

[Alexandria Eregbu @findingijeoma]

And as she gazed at her reflection,
there came a rumbling
in her belly.
And her belly grew
and it grew
until eventually,
she exploded
on to land.
And with that outburst
she created
many—
ocean
lake
and river.

[Alexandria Eregbu @findingijeoma]

Words are material.
Words can be shaped.
Words are also currency.

How’s your spending?

[Alexandria Eregbu @findingijeoma]

Poetry and seduction are closely related. Poetry and the surreal are kindred in spirit.

Can poetry, the surreal, and the sensual conspire with one another?

Where does this inspire creativity? When is response-ability required?

[Alexandria Eregbu @findingijeoma]

On it 💧✍🏾✨

[Lalah Delia 📖 @LalahDelia]

You’re a plant. Water yourself daily.

[Alexandria Eregbu @findingijeoma]

That includes play, grace, continuity, and pleasure.
The nature of poetry, and therefore the creativity of Black women, is to offer meaning in such a way that it can never end.

(1) Omis’eke Tinsley, ‘Ezili’s Mirrors’

#mothertelling #alexandriaeregbu #findingijeoma

[Alexandria Eregbu @findingijeoma]

Poetry is the way Black women theorize.
Words are material and words are food, too.
Poets use words to theorize and materialize.
“Sensuality is intelligence. Sensual language is a language that makes sense.” (1)
Black women are part of a tradition of using sensual language

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