CV (Poet and Interdisciplinary Artist)

 2012 Baruch College, City University of New York. Macaulay Honors. Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Music/Creative Writing

Cave Canem Workshops (2013 Khadijah Queen 2018 Latasha Nevada Diggs, 2020 Rico Frederick, 2024 Anastacia Reneé)

Free Verse Workshop/Open Mic (2015-2021)

Women Writers in Bloom Salon Workshops and Readings (2015-present)

Southeast Queens Artist Alliance (2016-Present)

2024

Baby Suggs and a Purple Butterfly. Get Fresh Books. Editor. Poetry Anthology/Guided Journal

2022

Lady Liberty Smashing Stones. THRASH Press. Author. Poetry Chapbook

2021

Binding a Divine Multiplicity Into One. hcx publication. Author. Poetry chapbook

Recycling a Why That Rules Over My Sacred Sight. DoubleCross Press (Bound Together Series). Author. Poetry Chapbook

2018

Variations on Sett/ling Seed/ling. Harlequin Creature. Author. Poetry Chapbook

2017

Lucy’s Bone Scrolls: The Black Speculative Mystery School. Three Legged Elephant Publishing. Author. Poetry Chapbook. 

2024

“Aunt Sarah (The Process of Storage or Place of Exchange or Sarah’s Pedagogical Pan/Orama).” Women Studies Quarterly Issue: Unbearable Beings (Upcoming)

“Supersonics of Q-YaRa: Cardiograms Dataflow Language.” Obsidian Vol. 49.2 (Upcoming)

Anvil Tongue Issue: “Saint Veronica (Naming Ceremony Part II),” “Battle of the Quiet, Contemplative Oracle” and “Theory of My Minds: I Having a Conversation with Myself Having a Conversation with Des/Cartes Having a Conversation with Himself (Meditations with Enlightenment and Freedom)

2023

“The Re/Sum of All Logos Under the I?’s Skin,” and “Sam/Els: The AL/TRS of One — A Polysemic Play maS (a ritual possession).” OyeDrum Magazine. Hybrid & Writing Issue

ALTeks: NGLitcholalia poetic broadcasts web project. Akademie Schloss Solitude;
“JU/NKonnu Costum (Oko)NKo Je (Printing a Rag(Wo)man Tempest on a Pierrot Plate).” Obsidian Literature and Arts of the African Diaspora. Vol. 48.2 (Special Issue: Obsidian’s GenderQueer/GenreQueer).

2021

“An/d De Wata Breaks SomeOne Serious.” Sand Journal. Issue 22. Print

“Pele (Variations on the Sun Hero).” Armstrong Literary (The Queens Review). Spring. Website.

2020

“SAME Nobody.” Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. Issue 46.2.;
“She Who Is The Image of God.” Mer Literary/Mom Egg Review. Mother Is Speaking: Mer Vox Folio Winter

“SumNuh/Mbulist (Patois Possession).” The Caribbean Writer. Volume 35. Print.

“Cymande (How Dove Found Land Again through Ex/Communication)” and “Can I Be/a Queen in ConVerse (KU Comes Out of the Beak of Sé/Mwen).” PREE Lit. Issue 6: Rub-A-Dub-Dub

“SAMO ’12: You Are What You Eat” and “Trans/Script of Black/Nuss: A Coding in the Hood.” Inverted Syntax. Issue 3

“History and the Present Invade Each Other’s Space,” “New Ports Triptych: I Carry a Rapture Around Myself,” and “A Fact of Ruins (Questioning Bones at the African Burial Ground).” Poets of Queens Anthology

“To Be Gifted & Talented & BLack (Arkology from the Last Angels of History).” Root Work Journal. Issue 1: Convening in the Ark: Black & Sacred Sites of Revelation.
“N(R)TR: A Ghost In the Machine.” Spilt Milk (Poetry Society of NY).

2019

“The Voyage of Kianda.” Furious Flower Anthology: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry Print

“Diasporic End/Beginning” and “B.A.G. Lady (Black Ark Goddess).” Obsidian Literature and Arts of the African Diaspora Issue 45.1

“When the Phantom Strangles Liberty’s Chimera” Cosmonauts Avenue;
“Black Mother Dada.” Pierian Literary Journal. Issue: Dream’s Giddy Sound In Honor of Gwendolyn Brooks (50th Anniversary of Publication). December 2018. Print

2018

“On the Shoreness of Dominica.” No Dear Magazine. Issue 22.
“Celestial Mary (Galilean Daughter);” “Moon Flow” and “Andromeda on the Seashore ∞ Andromeda on the Seahorse.” Newtown Literary. Issue 12

“Naming Ceremony III: Free Lady Creole.” New Voices Anthology. La Pluma Y La Tinta. Print.

2017 “Haiku poems.” African Voices Summer 2017 Digital Issue

“Naming Ceremony (Section I).” Bone Bouquet

2016

“Liberty Ashes (Keep Rising),” “A Hermit In Queens (What Use Are Flowers),” and “The Green: Wilson Rantus Ponders on the Future Industrial Park.” Newtown Literary. Issue 9

“Swelling Chants (Kaba).” Bared: Contemporary Poetry and Art on Bras and Breasts Anthology. Les Femmes Folles Books. Print

“PRPL PRNC.” Prince Tribute Anthology: I Only Wanted One Time To See You Laughing. Yellow Chair Review. 2016. Print

“Adore.” Delirious: A Poetic Celebration of Prince. Night Ballet Press. 2016. Print.

2015 “Thinker Tinker” and “Through the Eyes of a Prawn.” Newtown Literary. Issue 6.

2014 “Give Me Your Hand” and “Shadows Cross Over.” Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Art Inspired by Octavia Estelle Butler. Sybaritic Press. Print

“Lepers in the Mind.” Kalyani Magazine. Issue 4 (2014): 24-27. Print.

“Taboo Women.” Les Femmes Folles: The Women. 2014. Print.

“A Lesson in “The Returning and Then Letting Go.” Literary Manhattan. https://www.literarymanhattan.org/2014/02/a-lesson-in-the-returning-and-then-letting-go-a-poem/

2013

“Mourning Morning,” “The Silk Horns,” “Out of the Past,” “Necromantic Memories of Future’ and ‘(W)rite the Vision.” Blackberry. Vol II. Issues 1, 2 and 3 (Summer and Winter issues)