Arts Every Day

Unique Mical Robinson is a writer/MC, performer, professor, educator, host, & proud Baltimore native. She began performing at 14 on Baltimore's open mic & slam circuit, and has had the fortune of connecting and performing with various communities throughout the US, and Havana, Cuba in her youth. In addition to her artistry, she has worked passionately as a Community Organizer and Youth Mentor in Baltimore, Western Massachusetts, Brooklyn, Atlanta, and Oakland. She received her MFA in English & Poetry from Mills College in 2014, and her BA in Creative Writing & Black Studies from Hampshire College in 2009. Upon returning home, she became a Teaching Artist & Program Director/Operations Manager for DewMore Baltimore, and received the Emerging Teaching Artist award in 2017 from Arts Every Day. That same year, she co-founded blkottonkandy, an arts, music, & wellness initiative, which received the 2019 Grit Fund Grant. She debuted her first chapbook, flicked/forgotten/FREED, in 2014, and recently released her full-length poetic memoir, Four Wings & A Prayer: A Charm City Churn, to rave reviews. She is currently Faculty in Humanistic Studies at Maryland Institute College of Art, and continues to teach Theater and Poetry workshops with K-12 students in City Schools.