Darrel Alejandro Holnes: You know, sometimes I wonder, you look at poets that have their feet in many different shoes and you sometimes wonder like what would they be doing if they weren't a poet, right? Might they be a rapper? Might they be you know, a TV host? And I think that I probably would have become an R&B songwriter because I grew up really, really loving music, loving music more than anything. But what attracted me even more than the making of the music itself was the making of the lyrics, the crafting of the song in terms of the story that's being told by the singer. And you know, growing up in the early nineties, I have a lot of different musical influences. But I really, really remember loving nineties R&B because I would see how my parents and a lot of my family members and neighbors and friends would just completely get washed over by Luther Vandross or Anita Baker, and I wanted to create that sort of experience. And I definitely think that if I weren't a poet, I would be a songwriter.