Donney Rose

About Donney Rose

I am a poet, teaching artist, essayist, and community activist from Baton Rouge. Throughout my career, I have worked extensively in the realm of the creative arts in multiple capacities, including youth development, advocacy journalism, independent writing, and creating multi-media spoken word projects. In 2019, I began working on THE AMERICAN AUDIT, a multimedia series of spoken word poetry documentary projects chronicling the nuances of Black American life utilizing history, creative verse, and interviews with cultural experts. The series includes two projects: The American Audit, which chronicles 400 years of Black American life using the extended metaphor of America as a business audited by African Americans after centuries of marginalization; and Blood on the Bluff, a poetic and historical retelling of the 1972 massacre of Southern University students, Denver Smith and Leonard Brown. My work as a performance poet/writer has been featured in a variety of publications, including Atlanta Black Star, Blavity, Button Poetry, All Def Digital, Slam Find,[225] Magazine, Drunk In A Midnight Choir, Mocking Heart Review, University of New Orleans’ Bayou Magazine and Nicholls State University\'s Gris-Gris literary journal. My work as a community activist has been highlighted on BBC, Democracy Now, in New York Times, and The Advocate newspaper. I also contributed two scholarly articles to the St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture, 1st Edition (St. James Press, February 2018).

Experience

1. Academy Director

   Words Beats & Life

   May 2023 — Present · Washington, DC, US

Education

• Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge

  Bachelor's of Science, Marketing

  1998 — 2003