Donney Rose, a Baton Rouge native and active member of the city’s poetry scene, has been performing spoken word and facilitating spoken word events for just over a decade. He works as a teaching artist and marketing director for an arts-based non-profit, Forward Arts Inc. Donney has recorded three spoken word CDs and is author of the chapbook, The Crying Buck (Next Left Press), a collection that explores the vulnerabilities of the human condition through the lens of black masculinity. His work has been featured on Button Poetry, All Def Digital and in Nicholls State’s Gris-Gris literary journal.