Baker Artist Portfolios

About the Poet
'Ecila Mai' means 'I am Alice' spelled backwards. The name reminds the author to share and recognize different perspectives and to appreciate different points of view, in her writings of Japanese haiku, senryu and tanka poems. She also writes poetry, prose, soliloquies, quotes and thoughts as the author, “AB.” These initials remind her to be, “above board,” in writing her truth, i.e., to be honest, heartfelt and humble.

She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She has been writing poems since she learned to read and write. In her elementary school age years, she used to sit by the washing machine in the basement and make rhymes to the sound of the noisy rhythmic vibrations before the spin cycle started. In middle school, she decorated her brown paper lunch bag with collages made from cutting pictures out of magazines and writing a poem or prose with magic markers on her self-made customized bag, made just for her personal amusement.) In high school she wrote poetry, some published in the Upward Bound newsletter, self-printed by some of the students in a college preparatory program at Morgan. She wrote poetry in college, University of Maryland, College Park, in her diary, but stopped after some life altering events. As an adult, after she and her husband, raised two children, and he passed away. She started, "really” writing, again.

She previously has been published in the Maryland Bards Poetry Review and currently has a small book of Haiku Poetry on Amazon, entitled Haiku-isms, by Ecila Mai. She is living her best life, writing poetry every day and looks forward to sharing a few of poems, prose and points of view in this portfolio.
I hope you enjoy it, take something good out of it, and see hope, compassion, faith, pain and struggle, displayed in their many faceted ways in my "words art."
Lastly, she has three Instagram accounts sharing her prose, soliloquies, haikus, and sage faith advice
@Hearttical
@Haikuheartticals
@heartfeltjoyfulness