Next event: Aug. 21, open mic at Hidden House Charleston. 7pm

👋🏿 I’m Marcus Amaker – daily napper, dad & husband. I’m also a poet laureate, musician, songwriter on a Grammy-nominated album, opera writer, teaching artist, author, and graphic designer who was inducted into the SC Literary Hall of Fame. 🎉

p.s. You can find my work on bigger websites, but it’s better to get things straight from the artist, right? Here’s my store. 

a pocket-sized poetry book

we deserve a world without war

a novel in verse about the year 3044
+ the soundtrack of its story

the color of carina’s dreams
+ you hold the sound of the future in yr hands

a choral work about climate reslience

What the Earth Remembers,
with composer Shawn E. Okpebholo

March 14, 2027 – Baltimore, MD (info)
April 24, 2027 – Chicago, IL (info)
June 6, 2027 – Seattle, WA (info)
June 12, 2027 – Seattle, WA (info)

an album of ambient music
+ a short film

Humid Tombstones.
film by Persona La Ave

a pocket-sized visual poetry book

Hold What Makes You Whole