Richelle Claiborne

About Richelle: Richelle Claiborne has been a performer since the age of 4, although she didn’t start writing poetry until the age of 7. She didn’t realize how versatile and flexible poetry could be until she was cast as the Lady in Orange in “For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf”. This experience sparked her love affair with performance poetry that has grown until this day.

As she grew into adulthood, she was unable to pay for the therapy she so desperately needed, so she turned to poetry in an attempt to find a way to express herself clearly and completely. She has been inspired by her own pain as well as the pain of those around her, and uses her poetry to convey not only the darker side of the human emotional gamut, but the funnier and sexier sides as well.

Richelle has written 2 chapbooks, a one-woman show, and is currently working on several other projects which include a musical and self-help book. She can be found regularly at Live Arts Theater, performing with her band, Claiborne & Co., as well as performing her poetry with other bands at poetry venues around the country.

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