Genre: Spoken Word
Period: 2020s-present
Region: Ontario
Desiree Mackenzie is a spoken word poet, teaching artist and copywriter with a talent and passion for storytelling. The award-winning natoinal slam champion has been featured on CBC’s Poetic License series, When Sisters Speak, Clearco Financial, Button Poetry, Kids Help Phone, and Home Depot.
She facilitates community poetry programming for organizations like VIBE Arts, Unity Charity, Poetry in Voice, and Shakespeare in Action. Her debut spoken word EP, Wet Hair, is now available on streaming platforms. In December 2022, she opened for Rupi Kaur on her world tour stop at Massey Hall. She hopes her poetry can tap into the little things that make us, us and why we are the way we are.
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