8teen-2-Noteen

"8teen-2-noteen" marks the resonant debut of Ramses Martin-Baptiste (Ramses Martin)—known on stage and street surfaces as Poet!c Rams. Written between the ages of eighteen and twenty, the collection charts the final pulse of adolescence and the first breath of becoming. Across these poems, love and loss meet in the half-light of Colorado streets; truth and triumph hum beneath a blues-tinged skyline. Guided by a jazzy, arthouse rhythm and the immediacy of performance poetry, Ramses threads revelation through raw emotion—offering a portrait of youth in evolution. 8teen-2-noteen is both a farewell and an invitation: a call for the next generation to listen closer, feel deeper, and rewrite what it means to come of age.