Performing Art – Baltimore
Petula is an author and journalist, a performance poet and a recording artist.
She has been writing professionally for over fifteen years. As a journalist, her work has appeared in Baltimore\'s daily paper The Sun, Baltimore\'s alternative weekly City Paper, The Afro American Newspapers in Maryland and D.C., in Baltimore Magazine, in The Orlando Sentinel, and in numerous other publications in print and online.
As an erotica author, her work has been featured in New York Times Best Selling Author Zane\'s erotica anthology Caramel Flava, as well as in numerous print and online erotica publications like Clean Sheets and Desdemona. She released her first erotica collection called Lipstick and Other Stories in 2006, published by Phaze Books.
As a performance poet, Petula has appeared with The Punany Poets, and has travelled with her own show up and down The East Coast as an acapella artist and with her band LUVSTRUCK. She has performed at venues ranging from the famous Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, to theaters like The Creative Alliance in Baltimore, MD and The DC Arts Center in Washington, D.C., to nightclubs in Miami\'s South Beach at Winter Music Conference. Locally, she has performed at events like Epicurean Wednesdays hosted by Magic 95.9\'s Mykel Hunter at Select Lounge, and at Q Singles Sundays Valentine\'s Day Speed Dating events hosted by 92Q\'s Kiki Brown and LaDawn Black. Her work is best described as sensual storytelling, combining erotic lyrics, music, and Petula\'s unique stage presence.