I'm the Riddim Writer 💫

I am poem. I am song. I am a loaded sentence and a lyrical paragraph. I am well-placed punctuation, necessary pauses, and the open space to breathe. I am thought manifested and provoked. I am real and fiction. I am voice in rhythm. Ask me if I write and the answer is yes.

@djmillerJA Thanks for an excellent show tonight. The panelists were truly helpful. 👏 👏 👏

What kind of houses do you think we will have to build following Hurricane Melissa? N.B. answers may be read on air on All Angles on TVJ tonight

So much happening here in Jamaica 😕 following Hurricane Melissa. Offering my field notes via a blogpost. isissemajhall.com/2025/11/04/hur…

I wish somebody coulda told me that book writing is such a reflexive and inside-outing process. (These dub echoes are REAL!) As an outlet to tease out the more elusive bits, I’m back to blogging. Have a read ➡️ it’s not the soil – "write pon di riddim" isissemajhall.com/2024/12/14/its…

Pythagoras would have to turn ‘round, ben’ up, and curve to get anywhere in Kingston in any reasonable amount of time. This traffic is not normal.

@jahknobrent Weekly, methinks. No binging this. Sweet sweet patience.

@IsisSemajHall All the episodes available or is a weekly ting?

The haunting by the dead & the living, the exploitation of downtown girls by uptown men & downpressed mothers, the rebel joy of gully queens & the horror of anti-trans violence, the open secrets & bold denials, the pleasure & the sexism. Nuff tings! Ep 1 was 👌🏾. #GetMillieBlack

My ancestors sent me. Big up @kendricklamar 🖤

@oblessa Janet with the Meghan Markle delusion had me rolling !! Also, I want more Hit Girl! Episode 2, hurry up!

@IsisSemajHall It’s sheer poetry and gets better! 🖤🇯🇲 #GetMillieBlack

Maybe im stupid (im not) but there is literally not a single thing id need chatgpt for??????????? like does it do the dishes?

So we just never found Jasmine Dean huh?

@kwissoker I was quite interested to learn about your days in radio!

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@yashikagraham Hi! Is the launch at UWI? Also, WhatsApp me 😊

Some of Us Can Go Back Home launches in Kingston, Jamaica and will be in stores and online December 1. See you on the road!

Blouse & Skirt!! Thank you @bluebanyanbooks & my many teachers and supporters on this journey! Nothing like holding my debut poetry collection for the first time, knowing what it has taken from & given to me, knowing what a gift, what a love letter this is to me right now.

Looking forward to reading the debut collection from @yashikagraham — a truly talented poet!

Questioning is not proof of distrust; it’s proof of critical thinking.

Not sure what all is in retrograde, but all kinds of wires have been crossed lately. I think things are finally starting to untangle…

@eddiestats @SchomburgCenter @thesupercat101 what's this you say?

Had to track the premiere ish of Vibe down--at @SchomburgCenter appropriately--specifically to inhale the aura from Rob's #SuperCat piece v

Woman makes a parody of Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" about being a mother. 🙌😅

🚨Submissions are now open for #AAIHS2025! 👉🏽AAIHS encourages conference participants to reflect on how histories of African and African-descended peoples from slavery to the present shape our present and futures. loom.ly/FGDc1ik

When some of the execs asked me why I made Luke Cage a bookworm, this was why. The majority of brothers I've known who have spent time inside, and aren't recidivist, come out bookworms. That's why Pop was a fan of Donald Goines, where Luke liked edgy Detective fiction (Mosley, Pelecanos, Price) re: Episode 102.