About Jabari Khalfani

“I had a cat whose name was Pete, couldn’t catch rats but sure could eat.” At six years old, my first glimpse of being a poet was born when I uttered these words from a poem I performed for my first grade class. Growing up as a child, it wasn’t Mother Goose nursery rhymes, rather the melodic hip hop sounds of Chubb Rock, KRS 1, Eric B & Rakim, and Big Daddy Kane, that  ushered me to sleep at night. Any used envelope, pamphlet, flyer or scrap paper lying around, became a blank canvas for me to empty my thoughts and perfect my rhyme scheme.  I would write endlessly pages on pages at a time. Read More…