Arpell Haggins, Jr.

Poet & Philosopher 

Arpell Haggins Jr. is an author, philosopher, musician, model, and fashion designer. His purpose is to use his talents to make a difference in both big and small ways to help humanity reach an awakening.

In addition to creating art, he also volunteers his time to Children of the Future, a nonprofit organization that offers support, mentorship, and safe space to youths in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia areas. Haggins Jr. currently resides in Greenbelt, Maryland. In his free time, he enjoys reading and playing pool.

A Sea of Residual Thoughts

A Sea of Residual Thoughts is at once a diverse collection of poems, a transformative experience, a necessary wake-up call, and an intimate portrait of a young Black man.

With sensitivity, honesty, brazenness, and hard-earned wisdom, Arpell Haggins Jr. explores the many elements of life that can either thwart your progression or set you free—his empowering and lyrical verses encourage the latter, to thrive rather than to survive.

This vibrant debut features twenty poems, each an essential piece of the mind that produced them. The words here are not always gentle and are not always easy—instead, they challenge the mind to move past outdated, banal, and mundane routines and to evolve to a higher plane where the individual is unique and adored, but offers him or herself to a greater whole.