POET

Daysha has been a lover of poetry all her life, but her introduction to spoken word poetry began in the summer of 2008. It was while studying black and LGBTQ theatre with the prestigious Telluride Association Sophomore Seminar (TASS) that she was first exposed to the medium and artists like StacyAnn Chin, Shihan, and the entire Def Jam poetry scene. She was completely enamored by how these artists were skillfully wielding their words to expose deep truths and pains about the human condition.

It was not long before she was hooked and spoken word became one of her favorite forms of artistic expression. Any pain, any heart break, any complex emotion she was feeling, she quietly turned to her pen and her paper to work through her emotions. And in 2015, while working for BuzzFeed as a video producer, she combined her spoken word background with her video production skills and began producing stylized spoken word videos that became mega viral internet sensations.

Only having produced five spoken word videos during her 4 years at BuzzFeed, Daysha’s videos generated over 90 million views across YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

Stats about Daysha’s Poem Videos

• All five videos have over 1 million views on YouTube and Facebook.

• What I Wish Someone Told Me About Having Safe Sex is Daysha’s most successful poem video to date, with over 1 million shares on Facebook, and over 50 million views across Facebook and YouTube.

• I Am Not That Girl was her first viral poetry video success, reaching over 1 million views on YouTube 10 days after its release.

• Let It Out, Daysha’s first poem video for BuzzFeed, was considered a flop by their view count targets. But she did not let that set back stop her from figuring out how to make successful spoken word videos. It currently has over 2 million views on YouTube.