Brittana VersatilePoetiq Tatum was born at Hartford Hospital and spent nine years in Simsbury, CT, followed by ten years in Avon, CT. While in high school, she played basketball with aspirations of playing in college. However, she discovered her passion for poetry and became a poet. She graduated from Avon High School in 2005 and pursued a marketing major at the University of Hartford starting in the fall of 2005. She set aside her basketball sneakers and picked up a pen to become a poet. In May 2009, she graduated from UHART with a degree in Business Administration.
For the past 17 years, Ms. VersatilePoetiq has been captivating audiences with her spoken word performances and sharing her expertise by teaching spoken word for 12 years. She is associated with Charter Oak Cultural Center and Arts for Learning Connecticut. Her teaching experience includes working with 6th, 7th, and 8th graders at Two Rivers Middle School, where she taught Civic Engagement. She has also taught at Covenant Prep, Montessori Magnet School, Trinity Academy, YMCA, Boys & Girls Club, Milner Elementary, SANDS School, and Albert E. Burr School in Hartford, CT. Her reach extends across various towns in Connecticut, including New Haven, Windham, East Hartford, and Norwich. In the 2014-2015 academic year, she served as the Spoken Word teacher at The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts (Colt Campus). Notably, she has performed in front of 20,000 people at The Greater Hartford Jazz Festival in 2019 and 2021. Additionally, she hosted the Trinity International Hip Hop Festival in 2019. Due to her universal appeal and unique blend of Spoken Word and Rap, she goes by the stage name Versatile Poetiq and encourages her students to address her as Ms. Versatile.
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Sat, 2/21 at 2pm