Cyd Charisse Fulton, aaduna featured poet Happy Holidays aaduna Family and Best Wishes for a great New Year! Now, please pardon my vernacular, but I “grew some balls” participating in aaduna sponsored events, such as my poetry submission to aaduna’s premiere issue, the Seward House Museum’s First Friday presentation, the Centennial Celebration of the legacy of Harriet Tubman, and “Poets, Poetry and Spoken Word” at Hudson County Community College in Newark, New Jersey.   These amazing challenges forced me to write from my gut, work to preserve cultural history and begin Emphatic Publishing .   While the company is in its infant stages, I have managed to publish three poetry chapbooks.   ·         Sky Bop , by Kevin Jenkins is a brilliant collection of poetry influenced by Black love and Jazz.   ·         Emphatic Radical is my poetic kaleidoscope of Black cultural awareness...