Week 1: Day 1: Defining Self

Everything in the universe exists with you

WELCOME to the PREP Institute at UIC.

The Poet Haki Madhubuti wrote that we must be proactive  when it comes to accurately defining ourselves.

The Physicist Micho Kaku wrote that the two greatest mysteries are the mind and the universe.

We will focus on decoding text and the universe during Week 1 of the PREP INSTITUTE. You will write text that takes your inside of your self.

You are expected to be FEARLESS with your VOICES. tEnter the jungle to remove the darkness that erodes hope. Resound your intellectual and emotional trumpets to preserve the integrity of a people.  Allow your words to move beyond the shadows to protect the next head for the setting maul that has the potential to infect your contemporaries with the "poison of nothingness." Let the writing journeys begin.

Today, you will pen a poetic broadside that is powerful enough and serious enough to create a stir in the national imagination or the consciousness of someone else.  

I wrote the following poetic broadside to capture my place within the power of the jungle.