Poetry Reading with Franklin K.R. Cline, author of The Beatles' Second Album (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2022), and Destinny Fletcher, author of Black Girl Be Storm (self-published, 2016).

Franklin K.R. Cline is the author of So What and The Beatles’ Second Album, both via Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. An enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, he is an educator in Kansas City, MO, where he lives with Six and Olivia.

Destinny Fletcher is also known as “Deolinda Abstrac”: A woman with the power to inspire womanhood through the phenomenon in her voice. With Milwaukee, WI, as her hometown, art becomes her sound and her greatest enigma. In May of 2016 she self-published her latest poetry collection, Black Girl Be Storm, and she also released Fireflies & Peroxide in May of 2014. She continues to rock stages among the many cities she touches. She is a Spoken Word Artist, Actress, Advocate, and Survivor; representing Womanhood, Body Positivity, and Self-Awareness.

Poetry Reading: Franklin K.R. Cline and Destinny Fletcher