Raja performing “Hounds” at Angry Cow Poetry’s Two Year Celebration. Filmed by Melvin Crockett.

Poety and artwork by Raja Belle Freeman. Filmed and edited by Keith Allison.

Raja performing “Water Cycles” at One Mic Open’s ten year anniversary. Filmed by Keith Allison.

Raja performing “Never Have I Ever” with the Tongue in Groove band. Filmed by Keith Allison.

Raja performing “Crisis Writing #19” at One Mic Open’s ten year anniversary. Filmed by Keith Allison.

Raja performs “Boomerangs” with the Tongue in Groove band

Raja performs “Crisis Writing #27” at her feature at Angry Cow Poetry at the Rialto Theatre

Raja performing “Hey Shootle” at Angry Cow Poetry’s Two Year Celebration. Filmed by Melvin Crockett.

Raja performing Crisis Writing #18 with the Tongue in Groove band.

Raja performing “Crisis Writing #16” at One Mic Open’s ten year anniversary.

Raja performing “Crisis Writing #8” at Kenmore Winter Break Fest.

Raja performing “Water Cycles” at University Heights Juneteenth Celebration

Raja performing “When the Prompt Deals with Place” at Kenmore Winter Break Fest.

Raja performing “Hounds” at One Mic Open’s ten year anniversary.

Raja performing “Crisis Writing #24” with the Tongue in Groove band.

Raja Belle Freeman performing at Blax Museum. Filmed by Keith Alison and Nic Smith.

Raja performing “Crisis Writing #19” at Tongue in Groove Poetry Music Jam.

Raja performing “Crisis Writing #5” at her feature at Angry Cow Poetry at the Rialto Theatre.

Raja performing “Consider This Your Trigger Warning” with the Tongue in Groove band.

Raja performs “My Favorite Driveway” at Kenmore Winter Break Fest

Raja performing “Crisis Writing #8” with the Tongue in Groove band

Raja performing “Boomerangs” at Kenmore Winter Break Fest.

Raja performing “Crisis Writing #27” with the Tongue in Groove band.

Raja performing “Hounds” at University Heights Juneteenth Celebration

Raja performs “The Alphabet As Retold by Someone Who Knows That Nothing Lasts Forever” at Tongue in Groove Poetry Music Jam

Raja performing “Consider This Your Trigger Warning” at Kenmore Winter Break Fest

Raja performs “Crisis Writing #24” at her feature at Angry Cow Poetry at the Rialto Theatre.

Raja performing “Crisis Writing #19” at her feature at Angry Cow Poetry at the Rialto Theatre.

Raja performing “Never Have I Ever” at University Heights Juneteenth Celebration

Raja performing “Crisis Writing #25” at her feature at Angry Cow Poetry at the Rialto Theatre

Raja performing “Water Cycles” with the Tongue in Groove band.

Raja performing “Never Have I Ever” at her feature at Angry Cow Poetry at the Rialto Theatre

Raja performing “Hounds” at Tongue in Groove Poetry Music Jam

Raja performs “Crisis Writing #19” at University Heights Juneteenth Celebration.

Raja featuring with the Tongue in Groove band playing behind her. Filmed by Keith Allison.

Raja as the September feature for Angry Cow Poetry in the Rialto Living Room.

Raja performs a fifteen minute set. Filmed and edited by Keith Allison.

Hear Raja and twelve other features perform at Angry Cow Poetry’s celebration of two years of events at the Rialto Theatre.

Day 1 of Kenmore Winter Break Music Fest opened with featured poet, Raja Belle Freeman.

Raja performs along with three other spoken word artists for Lit Cleveland at Larchmere Porch Fest. Filmed and edited by Keith Allison.

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