Dehejia Maat


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Come Celebrate the Art and Poetry of Dehejia Maat. Poet, actress, yogi, and painter. Deep rooted original Earth woman who greets the dawn chanting while doing Surya Namaskar. Theater director for the Dragon Box Theater in Washington DC, this sista has graced many a stage from the Kennedy Center to local clubs on Historic U street, rocking mics from Japan to Toronto. Co-Creator of No Goddess Left Behind writers workshop and Yoga teacher. This year brings the directorial debut in the play, "For Colored Girls" and the release of two books "Deep Rooted Soul Sista Poem" & The Yes that Leads to Infinity, her second book poetry.

"I write and paint from my Mulahandra, I love freely and fiercely but I got a machete for the bammas"

Dehejia.maat@gmail.com

This is all

Started out pretty rough

Beginnings can be like that

This woman

Strength beauty talent

Was grown up outta dust

They will write bout me

how I come from struggle

My middle name

Low and behold

Right there for everybody to see

I ain’t dead yet, no

Not me