About
Reggie Myles is an African American and Afro-Salvadoran spoken word poetry artist, community organizer, and cultural worker from Pasadena, CA. His writing centers the Black experience through themes + concepts of joy, healing, resistance, identity, and spirituality. Reggie is a wordsmith, invoking the radical imagination and connections in his garden of poems. His voice weaves together the personal and the communal, allowing his poems to be not only a text but also a gathering of memory, resistance, and truth.
Reggie is the founder of Elijahs Roses, an artistic platform and creative brand that showcases his multidisciplinary projects and poetry. He also has a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA in Sociology and African American Studies. Lastly, his community work centers social and economic justice for Black communities through Black labor movements and mutual aid organizing with the Pasadena Black Equity Project.
My Book
A poetic offering of transformation from resilience to destiny.
Reggie Myles in his debut poetry book invites the reader to join
him on a quest to define Black manhood, healing, spirituality, and
self-actualization when faced with home displacement, violence,
and being one's own worst enemy.
D.E.N.A B.O.Y invites the reader to believe that even when dirt is thrown at us, and the rain comes, we can still bloom, with roots that withstand concrete and storms. The four chapter poetry book gives language to Reggie's personal journey and community: here he plants seeds of intention in soil made by centuries of struggle, resistance, and love.
For the rising poet, it's not just a poetry book but a project that is literature, cultural work, and art activism.