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Malachi Hoskins has been writing and performing poetry since 2010. He started performing spoken word poetry in the East Village of Manhattan. In 2015 he moved to New Orleans and in the wake of the pandemic he purchased a typewriter. Malachi and his typewriter have been traveling to weddings, special events, art markets, farmers markets, and street fairs all over the country to write people poetry in the moment they ask for it.
In 2021 Malachi evacuated hurricane Ida to the Texas Hill Country. Bewitched by its beauty and charmed by opportunity, he made Texas his home base. He currently resides in San Antonio and is working on his follow up to his 2021 pandemic era book “Outside Tomorrow.”
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MORE ABOUT THIS ARTIST
Artist Type: Literary Arts: Author/Writer, Poet; Media Arts: Voiceover; Multi-Disciplinary: Performer and Writer; Performing Arts: Actor, Spoken Word Artist, Storyteller; Teaching Artist/Instructor
Artist Style: Literary: Action/Adventure, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Prose, Romance, Slam, Stream of Consciousness; Street Art
Artist Medium: Computer; Typewriter
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
My mission statement is to endeavor to relieve suffering through the written and spoken word. Poetry and storytelling create a resonance that reaches into the darkest, loneliest places in the human heart and creates light. Poetry can guide us through grief, joy, the bitter sweet of love, and the spectrum of emotion. The vast diversity of our experiences can be known through the works of those willing to share.
My work is largely confessional and observational. I take what I see with my unique perspective and distill that into words that penetrate conventional boundaries. I seek to challenge people to see things a new way and to find healing in their own understanding.
