Janea's profile
Janea Kelly is a later bloomer who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Janea is one of those people who took the long way around and is better off for it. As a child with a heavy yet happy heart and ant-like strength, Janea was drawn to poetry and sprawling her complaints and hopes in sea green crayons. Ever since she was made to memorize a Langston Hughes poem for a primary school recital, Janea was aware of the power of speaking poetry, of its performance. After a long battle with trauma and mental illness, Janea founds herself turning to the only outlet she's ever known. Starting in basements and working her way up to performing at Artscape and at Hopkins' in fall of 2016, Janea garnered the attention and eventually the award of "Best Poet" in The Baltimore City Paper.
Janea loves pistachios, peonies, and papaya. The eldest of three (biologically) and the youngest of four (adopted) Janea Kelly grew up in Washington, D.C. after an early life that was marked by displacement, substance abuse, and sexual trauma. Janea lived all over the D.C. area befores settling in Silver Spring. After a few years in community college, Janea traded her metro pass, monuments and mambo sauce for old bay, hard r's in wash, and warehouses and never once regretted the permanent address change.
Janea loves pistachios, peonies, and papaya. The eldest of three (biologically) and the youngest of four (adopted) Janea Kelly grew up in Washington, D.C. after an early life that was marked by displacement, substance abuse, and sexual trauma. Janea lived all over the D.C. area befores settling in Silver Spring. After a few years in community college, Janea traded her metro pass, monuments and mambo sauce for old bay, hard r's in wash, and warehouses and never once regretted the permanent address change.
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