Quote of the Day

she was too much of a warrior

to be considered a princess

she never cared for the crown

she preferred a sword

- R.H. Sin

Reuben Holmes, who is twenty-seven, was born in New Jersey, but his mother relocated the family to public housing in Tampa, Florida, after she left his father. He became a fixture at the local library, where he stumbled on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” in the third grade, a signal moment. Today he is a social media poet.