Poetry-N-Motion, LLC
Poetry-N-Motion, LLC
About Poetry-N-Motion, LLC
About Poetry-N-Motion, LLC
Poetry-N-Motion, LLC is a company that not only specializes in spoken word and poetry, but so much more. Through the gift of spoken word and writing, we engage our community through empowerment and personal development. Our specialties deal with writing workshops, mentoring, and also event hosting/planning. Our mission is to serve as a change agent to provide an alternative for individuals who are faced with challenging situations where a different outlet can be utilized to decrease and/or diffuse the emotional distress. Our target audiences are youth, veterans, community leaders, and aspiring artists.
About The Founder/CEO:
About The Founder/CEO:
LeJuane (El’Ja) Bowens is an award-winning spoken word poet, host, speaker, workshop facilitator, and author. Born in Detroit,Mich and raised in Lima, Ohio El’Ja joined the United States Army in 2000. During his six years of service, which included two deployments to Iraq, El’Ja began to commit his thoughts to paper. In 2005, at the urging of a friend, he posted several poems online. The positive feedback opened his eyes: poetry was his calling.Since then, he has since went on to become the 2009 McDonald's Food For Thought Poetry Slam Champion, 2010 ECU's Survival of the Illest Poetry Slam, and the 1st poet to have his work in the Obama Art Museum located in Raleigh, NC (the 1st and only of its kind in North Carolina).
In 2014, he was recognized as the 1st ever NC Poet to compete in three different Grand Slam Finals in three different cities & win ALL three slams(Fayetteville, Charlotte, and Durham) and, along with the Bull City Slam Team, won the 22nd Southern Fried Poetry Slam. and placed 2nd place in the following year. In 2015, El'Ja was nominated for Spoken Word Artist of the Year at the 5th Annual National Poetry Awards.
He is one of the founders and is the director for the Southeastern Regional NC Poetry Festival held once a year in Fayetteville, NC and he is a featured poet on Poetry Slam Inc, All Def Poetry, Amazon, and PBS.
El'Ja is also the author of the poetry books, " So Many Things to Say: A Collection of Poems" , "Anywhere...But Here", and "Before: A Collection of Poems" . He was the recipient of the Rising Star Male Poet Award for the State of North Carolina and overall recipient of the award for the 2016 GANSPA Awards. He is also host to an event called the Nerd Slam which he has done at the Southern Fried Poetry Slam, National Poetry Slam, and numerous ComicCon events across the US.
He has performed at numerous festivals such as the Arts in the Heart of Augusta Festival, Big Ears Festival, headlined the Book'em NC Book Festival, Homegrown Festival and the National Folk Festival along with sharing the stage with the likes of poets such as Georgia Me, Sunni Patterson, Abyss, and Shihan Van Clief. He has also shared the stage with C&C Music Factory, Rob Base, All 4 One, and Coolio.