The Poet and the Poem
2025-26 Series

Featured Andre’ Brenardo Taylor

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Andre’ Brenardo Taylor, known in poetry circles as "Brenardo the sing song poet" was born in Washington D.C. in the year 1955. Amidst the ongoing backdrop of the Civil Rights movement, Desegregation, Black revolution, and the technological age his understanding of what was going on around him was recorded in notebooks as questions, queries, and observations. Drawing from Mother Goose, Dr. Seuss, Langston Hughes and Gil Scott-Heron among so many others, Brenardo shaped these into poems, stories, and songs and brought them to the world. Brenardo touches the soul with his words in the ways of a bard. Combined with his faith and understanding of the creator through searches and associations of myriads of different religions, his writings focus on the spirituality affecting all in alignment with being human. His poetry has been on display in countless magazines, journals, online, stages, radio and television for 5 decades and counting. An alumnus of "Poets In Progress", "Anointed P.E.N.S.", "Writers On The Greenline", and currently a long time member of "Collective Voices." Brenardo can be reached at deotp123@gmail.com.

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