Awards
Diode Editions 2020 Full-Length Book Contest Winner for GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues
2020 recipient of the Arthur Williams Award for Meritorious Service to the Arts award
Criticisms, Interviews, and More!
Reflection: Not separate from, but a part of ... the world of John Cleaveland’s landscapes
Vermont Public Radio
A Room of Her Own: The Bounds of Desire and Human Capacity with Shin Yu Pai
Ms. Magazine
Reflection: On Dona Ann McAdams’ 'Performative Acts,' And How The Camera Can Create Intimacy Vermont Public Radio
Book review: GHETTOLAUSTROPHOBIA, Seven Days
Reviewed by Skye Jackson
GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA, Harriet Books, Poetry Foundation
Reviewed by Ryo Yamaguchi
Reflection: On Kenny Rivero's Exhibition 'Palm Oil, Rum, Honey, Yellow Flowers' Vermont Public Radio
"A Review of You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves" Literary Mama
"To nurture our creatives, we need a diverse, equitable environment"
VT Digger Commentary
"Intersectional Voices for a New Generation: How A New Young Adult Anthology in Verse Continues a Conversation Started Decades Ago" The Massachusetts Review
Film Review: "What Must One Be Willing to Give In Order to Become?" The Brattleboro Reformer
"Rooms Of Their Own: Working, Playing, And Creating During A Pandemic" (Photo Essay) Vermont Public Radio
"Trying to Speak Woman in My Own Tongue" and "Black Book of Creation"
ITERANT Literary Magazine
"What Cuties, WAP and 'Naked Athena' Really Say About Sexuality In American Culture" BLAVITY
We must explore the real ways in which BIPOC bodies inevitably exist within constructed meanings of desire and danger.
"The place in another universe teaching us our lost adolescence in a new alphabet" Palette Poetry
August 19, 2010 Past Ten
Did you ever have a day in your life that turns out not to be as random as the rest, but you did not know it yet? This is a reflection piece about such a day in my life ten years ago.
Whitesplaining BLAVITY
The Conversation About White Progressive Liberal Racism That We Aren’t Having
Black Lives Matter...But For How Long? DAME Magazine
While every industry is rushing to make a “solidarity” statement to acknowledge institutionalized racism, what kind of change will it take to ensure the value of Black lives forever?
PBS American Portrait: A National Storytelling Project Public Television Network
My audio and visual poem about bearing witness in this moment
Rebels With a Cause: What History's Forgotten Black Women Teach Us About Ourselves Ms. Magazine
The Enduring Mythology of Public Space The Crisis Magazine
Insiders: Windham County at its heart Vermont Arts & Living
'Southern Vermont is like a matryoshka doll: there was always more to appreciate beneath the surface.’
I AM: Exploring What It Means to Be a Vermont Artist by Amy Lilly. An art review of a statewide exhibition I co-curated with the Vermont Arts Council
Not a word, but an action The Commons
Dispatch From A Once Invisible Teenager The Commons
Recitation of Bars Fight, A Poem by Lucy Terry Prince People, Places, and the History of Words (Brattleboro Words Project)
Dispatch From A Once Invisible Teenager The Commons
Let’sShow Off Our Stuff: Windham County Artsas an Invitation to Visitors Editorial for Southern Vermont Arts & Living
TheSociety of Alice: You Are Your Own White Rabbit Rebelle Society
A Name Is Just A Name? Broadening Our Understanding of Black Names The Commons
Remember When Everything Felt Like The End Of The World? Well, It’s Still Here, But Different Rebelle Society
My Hair, My Self Ms. Magazine
An Open Letter to My Former Younger Self Rebelle Society
On Passing, the Performance of Blackness and the Rachel Dolezals I Know Ms.Magazine
Investigative Journalism
Special Focus: Flying Signs The Commons
Brattleboro’s tensions over panhandling bring to the surface discussions about how to share the streets with people in need — and how to balance compassion, safety, and community in the process
Special Focus: Urban drug culture brings a host of ‘isolated incidents’ The Commons
"A steady stream of drugs comes from Hartford and New York to users along the I-91 corridor, thanks to the opioid crisis. A community was unprepared for the violence that moved in."
Special Focus: #ThemToo The Commons
"Last December, more than 50 women weighed in on a Facebook discussion, and many claimed injury and inappropriate conduct by a Brattleboro yoga instructor. When #MeToo hits a small town, nobody is left unscathed."
Listen
"Trying to Speak Woman in My Own Tongue" and "Black Book of Creation" featured on Jazz Ready, a podcast by award winning artist Magdalena Gomez
"Woman Untitled" Performance at Sobo Studio in Brattleboro, VT
"Dear Creative One" Created for a special project
A taste of the Ponder This former segments previously aired on Green Mountain Mornings 100.3 FM and 1490 WKVT in Brattleboro, VT. Selected samples:
That which you remember and do you?
Do we have a right to tell our stories as we wish?
Photoshopping Our Lives as Presented ‘Portlandia’
Are Trigger Warnings Creating an Egg Shell Culture?
The Child Still Within Us
Why You Don’t Want Everyone Riding Your Bus
What Is the Meaning of Justice Today?
Just Because We Can, Should We? The Use of Social Media
Do You Know the Meaning of Authentic?