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… more