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PUBLICATIONS, PERFORMANCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS

Akua Lezli Hope and Dick Riddick Performing

PUBLICATIONS

 2025


Black Orpheus V  contest winner!

The Pigeon Ladies  synkroniciti. Identity issue  Winter 2025 Volume 7 no1 March 5, 2025 https://synkroniciti.com/congratulations-to-the-artists-of-synkronicitis-identity-issue/

https://synkroniciti.com/black-orpheus-v-by-akua-lezli-hope-wins-synkronicitis-identity-poetry-contest/


Wherever We Make Planetfall Postcard ArtFarm Press, February 2025

Our SpaceWays SpaceFunk! edited by Milton Davis, MVMedia 2025 https://www.amazon.com/Spacefunk-Variant-Cover-Milton-Davis/dp/B0DT29JYYS

First Contact Translator Speculative Valentine’s Day Poetry page edited by Sandra Lindow, 2/10/2025 www.sfpoetry.com


New Homestead  Sublimation Annual 1 https://islandofwakwak.com/sublimation-annual-1.html January6, 2025 Sublimation Annual I: The Best of Volume 1 Paperback – 


So Many Reasons to Resist  Alternative Liberties Bcubed Press
K.G. (Karen) Anderson B Cubed Press https://bcubedpress.wordpress.com https://www.amazon.com/Alternative-Liberties-Alternatives-Bob-Brown-ebook/dp/B0DT176GYK

Haikuinverse  January 24,2025 “snowfall” https://haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-akua-lezli-hope-3/


2024 Europa’s Whales, New Homestead Sublimation: Volume 1, Issue 5, November/December 2024 — Living in Another World (Sublimation: a Magazine of Speculative Poetry and Art) Paperback – November 28, 2024, edited by TS S. Fulk, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DP9R3MDL/

"Bubblegum"  p. 50 in bubblegum! orangepeel, issue 8.5 2024,

https://orangepeelmag.wordpress.com/latestissue/


Akua Lezli Hope, 3 halloween horror haiku,  Halloween Haiku Challenge 2024, on Instagram.

second place winner, “Halloween terror”, https://halloweenhorrorhaiku.com/ https://www.instagram.com/p/DB212I5xpHk/?img_index=1

Halloween Bar SFPA Halloween page https://www.sfpoetry.com/halloween.html

Expanding Our Knowing NewVerse News, October 29, 2024 https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2024/10/expanding-our-knowing.html

Rogue Singer  Eye to the Telescope, October 15 2024 http://eyetothetelescope.com

Melissa  Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables and Dark Tales Kindle Edition by Jamal Hodge, Crystal Lake Publishing,  October 7, 2024 https://www.amazon.com/Bestiary-Blood-Modern-Fables-Tales/dp/1964398215/

To Fight and Pray

Collateral Damages  About Place Journal Shaping Destiny Before, During and After, October 1, 2024 https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/shaping-destiny/before/akua-lezli-hope/


Carnivora’s Spring

Andromedan Spring

Weeping Walker Nature Triumphs anthology, Alison Armstrong and Pixie Bruner, editors, September 2024 https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Triumphs-Anthology-Speculative-Literature-ebook/dp/B0DDDQ48LT

Spinning the Cylinder   New Verse News 7/30/2024

https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2024/07/spinning-cylinder.html 

“gondoliers strum strings” Dwarf Stars Anthology, 2024 www.sfpoetry.com/ds/24dwarfstars.html

Pilot Rhysling Anthology 2024 https://www.sfpoetry.com/ra/awards/24winners.html

Generation Ship  Star*Line 47.3, Summer 2024 https://www.sfpoetry.com/sl/edchoice/47.3-5.html

https://www.sfpoetry.com/sl/issues/starline47.3.html

Giant Robot and His Person FIYAH #31 Disability, Summer 2024 https://fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/2024-issues/fiyah-31-disability/ https://fiyahlitmag.com/

Guessing Weight Tiny Moments Volume III anthology, Bronze Bird Books, David Pring-Mill, editor, May 2024, www.bronzebirdbooks.com

CONTACT Worlds of IF, February, 2024 https://worldsofifmagazine.com/featured-content Worlds of IF Magazine #177 FEBRUARY, 2024 

Vol. 1, No. 1 Issue 177 https://worldsofifmagazine.com/

Special Delivery  Dreams and Nightmares 126 January 2024 https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines-i-print-primarily.html

Igbo Landing and Child Price The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022 anthologyedited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Eugen Bacon, Milton Davis, December 2023

"i shook after waking" ,  F(r)iction, December 2023

“Halloween reprieve”  haikuniverse Halloween special https://haikuniverse.com/halloween-haiku-2-of-25-by-akua-lezli-hope/

  

2023

Igbo Landing and Child Price                         The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022 antholog yedited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Eugen Bacon, Milton Davis, December 2023

"i shook after waking" ,  F(r)iction, December 2023

“Halloween reprieve” haikuniverse Halloween special https://haikuniverse.com/halloween-haiku-2-of-25-by-akua-lezli-hope/

Healing Verse Poetry Line (1-855-POEMRX2 / 1-855-763-6792) — “Survival Is Its Own Revenge” has been selected for a weeklong feature, by curators Yolanda Wisher and Trapeta B. Mayson. Philadelphia contemporary week beginning 10/30/2023

5th Annual Halloween Horror Haiku Contest Winner 2023 Nov 1 “dark Halloween night” https://halloweenhorrorhaiku.com

“cold halloween night” haiku  Scarlet Dragon Special issue Halloween https://scarletdragonflyjournal.wordpress.com/2023/10/29/special-issue-halloween-2023/

Masks SFPA Halloween issue, October 2023 https://www.sfpoetry.com/halloween.html

I will be Loud, Pilot  Black Joy Unbound, September 2023

https://www.blfpress.com/bookstore

  Unioverse includes my epic poem, Chantress, whopping 6 page verse narrative about a space singer swapping bodies, learning and mediating around the galaxy through sound.

Just released. It the first anthology for a new world building gaming franchise

The first page of my poem Chantress in the Unioverse Anthology Stories of the Reconvergence, August 2023. 

Five Times More Merciless Mermaids: Tails from the Deep, WordFire Press in July 2023 Anthology Merciless Mermaids: Tails from the Deep, WordFire Press, July 2023 Anthology https://www.amazon.com/Merciless-Mermaids-Kevin-J-Anderson-ebook/dp/B0BW7JTZW2

Interview https://karendeblieck.com/merciless-mermaids-author-interview-akua-lezli-hope/

Mushi Shi Star*Line 46.3 June 2023

Abraxas Conjecture To Ukraine, With Love, A Benefit Anthology Print ISBN: 979-8-9871931-0-5 August 2023, Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, Fran Eisenmannhttps://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/features/to-ukraine-with-love/ 52 lines 

2 haiga, “Brooklyn tree”, “4:56 am”, Haiku North America NA 2023, Urban Haiga June 28, 2023https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-6ZVxn407QuBKSTCsMntAQVjoCRgcrfx

28-July2, 2023

Smilodons, Things Glimpsed on Rings, and Bigfoot Hereabouts 

The Sirens Call  issue #62, June 2023 http://www.sirenscallpublications.com 


Teaching Artist p 106, Jaffreys  p. 163, These Black Bodies Are..  Black Landia, Romaine Washington, Editor, June 2023  978-1-19559696

https://www.romainewashington.com/blacklandia.html

I knew they would undo me p 213,

In Memoriam for BJ Ashanti p 302,

 

Clean Plates  Last Leaves Magazine Issue 6: Hunger p. 46 

https://www.lastleavesmag.com/last-leaves-issues free download Spring 2023


interview  Star*Line 46.2 Spring 2023

The Four For Those Who Deserve to Exist, Inked in Gray Press, March, 2023

Star/tare, star/tape, “star/tore”,essay SCIFAIKUEST PRINT edition February 2023 https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-february-2023-edited-by-t-santitoro

Comet C2022 E3 (ZTF) Haikuniverse February 4, 2023

“My mother, She Ate Me”  FIYAH Magazine, January 2023 https://fiyahlitmag.com

"i shook after waking"  as part of our Community Feature with Breath & Shadow 2023

 “gondoliers strum strings” Star*Line 46.1 , SFPA, Winter 2023


2022

Encompass About Place Journal Fall 2022, December,https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/center-of-gravity/praxis/akua-lezli-hope/

Dogon, How She Blew  Stanza Cannon #4, December 2022 https://www.stanzacannon.com/

Essay

Back to Back, Belly to Belly and Other Epiphanies on Speculative Poetry 11/30/2022 Specpo Blog https://specpo.wordpress.com/2022/11/30/__trashed

Medusa  The New Verse News, November 18, 2022 https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2022/11/medusa.html

If I had A Hammer The New Verse News, November 7, 2022 https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2022/11/if-i-had-hammer.html

“mutants now rise” 4thannual Halloween horror Haiku Challenge 2nd place winner https://halloweenhorrorhaiku.com/

The Skeleton Key  Scarlet Dragonfly

https://scarletdragonflyjournal.wordpress.com/2022/10/31/the-skeleton-key/

Volcano  PureHaiku purehaiku.wordpress.com/2022/10/25/25-10

Another Comprador The NewVerse.News October 7, 2022

https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2022/10/another-comprador.html

My Neighbor's Dog SFPA Halloween page, October 2022 https://www.sfpoetry.com/halloween.html

Robot and Mt God, Robot Exodus, Aerogramme, https://www.aerogramme.org

Message to Mommy, Carnivorflora Haibun, The Mobile library magazine Volume 2 Issue 

Who the Oumuamua Visits 4︙Sci-fi https://www.aerogramme.org/sci-fi

Whale Talk    September 4, 2022 Linebreak Episode 10

https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2022/09/04/episode-10-akua-lezli-hope/

“corner of your eye,” “star jelly” Scifaikuest, 20th Anniversary Issue, print,  August 2022, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-august-2022-edited-by-t-santitoro 


“night diner” “sail size petals drift” SCIFAIKUEST online edition August 2022

https://www.hiraethsffh.com/scifaikuest-online


The Papermaker Africa Risen, A celebration of African storytelling, eds. Sheree Renee Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight, TOR,  Fall 2022

  

Alien propagation 

“thinning hurt” ubu. small absurdist poems, June 2022 https://ubupoems.wixsite.com/home/issues Issue 4 June 2022 has been put forward for commentaries in The Haiku Foundation's  https://thehaikufoundation.org/revirals-358/

Scree  The NewVerse.News, June 30, 2022
https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2022/06/scree.html

Whale Talk Line Break, broadcast, June 2022

https://www.tdwalker.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/010_AkuaLezliHope.mp3

From the Ogre series Star*line 45.3,  SFPA, Summer 2022

https://sfpoetry.com/starline.html
O G R E/G E A T,O G R E/G E A T/R A C E
O G R E/G R A N,O G R E/G A U R,
R U N  E/ U S  E  D
 

As Yemayaah Traveling the Spaceways, Teen Poetry workshop anthology, ed. by Sheree Renée Thomas sponsored by Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute, May 2022

Igbo Landing, Igbo Landing II, On Design Black Fire This Time, ed. By Dr. Kim McMillon, Willow Books, Aquarius Press, March 2022 

“sky memorial” “you cannot know us”  Scifaikuest, February 2022, print

Why Paper  Hand Papermaking Magazine

Child Price Gramarye: The Journal of the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction Winter 2021, University of Chichester,http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/journal/

Editor’s Note NOMBONO, Akua Lezli Hope, editor,

Sundress Publications, October 2021

Editor’s Note Eye to the Telescope #42, Akua Lezli Hope, editor, Science Fiction Poetry Association, October 15, 20212021

  

Take Shelter Panoply Magazine, September 19, 2021, https://panoplyzine.com/

At The Renny in AGM Theater Production, “I Remember Harlem When” July 25, 2021

Dragon New Tales of the Roundtable: An Anthology of Avalon 2021, https://www.blurb.ca/b/10783555-new-tales-of-the-round-table?fbclid=IwAR2K7vsdgYPj2gvLqYBkWEegrNvce9BVU0bNq2bjjNVM7JDr2UOUzQADwZs


Unremembered, Sometimes I Still Forget Friends & Friendship Volume I USA &Canada, 

edited by Robin Barratt, The Poet Summer 2021 https://www.thepoetmagazine.org/summer-2021---friends-and-friendship

Mermaid Discusses Dissolution View From Atlantis, Fey issue, https://viewfromatlantis.wordpress.com/ May 2021


Igbo Landing, Ignorance my Prophylactic Rhysling Anthology, 2021, SFPA www.sfpoetry.com

Stratospherics 2, Out of Many, One,  James Doohan, Celestis, Eccentric Orbits Volume 2, edited by Wendy Van Camp, https://dimensionfold.com/catalog/poetry-books/eccentric-orbits/ https://dimensionfold.com/authors/akua-lezli-hope/


Linguicide New Verse News April 2, 2021 https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2021/04/linguicide.html

They Are Swimmers, Hope Floats,   Raising Mothers Every Mother is a Futurist issue

March 2021 https://www.raisingmothers.com/

My House Still Bleeds Oyster River, Composite Dreams anthology, 2021

https://www.oysterriverpages.com/poetry42/2020/12/19/my-house-still-bleeds


Erica, O Erica Pensive Spring 2021Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts https://www.northeastern.edu/spirituallife/pensive-a-global-journal-of-spirituality-and-the-arts/

“Somehow, You Knew”  Vestal Museum, Empty the Inkpots: The History of American Typewriters, March-May 31,2021, http://www.vestalmuseum.org/2021/03/18/empty-the-inkpots-a-history-of-american-typewriters/

Stratospherics March 15, Quarantine Public Library, 7 scifaiku, micro mini chapbook

Transcendent City March/April 2021 Fantasy and Science Fiction

Whale Talk Magazine, https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/

Medifluous  Raising Mothers, February 2021      https://www.raisingmothers.com/medifluous/

“sky memorial”, “you cannot know us” Scifaikuest, February 2021, print

As Yemayaah, GalleyWay Heard/Read February 22, 2021
http://galleyway.com/2021/2/22/heard-word-akua-lezli-hope

“made a card for you” HAIKUNIVERSE, Feb. 14, 2021
https://haikuniverse.com/valentines-day-haiku-2-of-25-by-akua-lezli-hope/

“people are the source’ HAIKUNIVERSE, January 24, 2021


2020

Faced the Final Curtain So Fi Zine #8 December 29, 2020 

Paradigm Shift https://sofizine.com/cfs/

Igbo Landing Penumbra, Fall 2020 https://www.penumbraonline.org/fall-2020-poetry.html

“unvisible moons” Scifaikuest, November 2020 print

“shapeshifters dance’

“shapeshifters party” Scifaikuest, November 2020 online https://www.hiraethsffh.com/scifaikuest-online-november-2020

12 poems, chapbook,  Otherwheres, ArtFarm Press, October 30 https://tinyurl.com/otherwheresebook

3 poems ,"something she ate," “crooked", and "I did not plant".  Gnashing Teeth, Halloween special, October 31, 2020, https://gnashingteethpublishing.com/

“I did not plant” Haiku Universe Halloween Haiku (7 of 25)  October 31, 2020 https://haikuniverse.com/halloween-haiku-7-of-25-by-akua-lezli-hope/

Luno,  SFPA Halloween 2020 https://www.sfpoetry.com/halloween.html

The Wall Beyond the Rage

https://sundressblog.com/2020/10/23/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-them-gone-by-akua-lezli-hope-10/

10/23

Kwansaba for Jayne Cortez

https://sundressblog.com/2020/10/22/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-them-gone-by-akua-lezli-hope-9/

10/22

Afro Funk

https://sundressblog.com/2020/10/21/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-them-gone-by-akua-lezli-hope-8/

10/21

Evocateur for Earth Kitt

https://sundressblog.com/2020/10/20/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-them-gone-by-akua-lezli-hope-7/

10/20

Building History Lullaby

https://sundressblog.com/2020/10/20/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-them-gone-by-akua-lezli-hope-6

10/19 curated by Tierney Bailey 

Serve New Verse News, October 16, 2020  https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2020/10/serve.html

"My dead friend's daughter," "Aretha Orbits Us" 

and "Watch" Starline 43.4 October 2020
http://sfpoetry.com/starline.html 

Don’t use that word, Thank you, I envy you About Place Journal, Works of Resistance,

Resilience, October, 2020

https://aboutplacejournal.org/…/there-can-…/akua-lezli-hope/ 

Ignorance, My Prophylactic Eye to the Telescope Issue 38, October 2020, Cat Theme, John Philip Johnson, editor, https://eyetothetelescope.com/

“stone bridge” Scifaikuest  August 2020 print

“newlyweds” Scifaikuest  August 2020 online

The Them Gone https://tinyurl.com/yynfqcdm

The Wall Beyond the Rage https://tinyurl.com/y36f32h2

Being Here https://tinyurl.com/y3l9syjv

950 Hoe Avenue  https://tinyurl.com/y676rmcw

my mother is an indictment

https://sundressblog.com/2020/10/20/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-them-gone-by-akua-lezli-hope-5/ 

March 20

curator for this selection is Nilsa Rivera. The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed, SUNDRESS

Arrivant, Animalia, Chordata,

Earthwork Sestina, in  Wreaths for a Wayfarer: An Anthology in Honour of Pius Adesanmi

edited by Nduka Otiono, Uchechukwu Umezurike, co-publishers: Daraja Press, fasihi, Narrative Landscape https://tinyurl.com/y6kpazq7, 2020

Jury Selection January 27, 2020, Poets Reading the News  https://tinyurl.com/yyfrcx8h

Many of Them Are On the Younger Side August 20, 2019, Poets Reading the News
http://www.poetsreadingthenews.com/2019/08/many-of-them-are-on-the-younger-side/

Telaphen Lockjaw Magazine, Volume VII, Summer 2019

https://www.lockjawmagazine.com/vol7/hope/

Cook in Fiolet & Wing, An Anthology of Domestic Fabulism, 2019

Castlelul Bran, Game of Telephone: Conversations in Poetry and Art, June, 2019


THEM GONE December 2018, THE WORD WORKS

Algeria, Resurrections December 2018, 50 over 50, poems and
translations by 50 women over 50 ed. by Ann Davenport Quill’s Edge Press https://quillsedgepress.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/50-50-anthologists-announcement.pdf

Montserrat Minerva Rising, Roots Wings and Everything in Between Issue 15 Fall 2018, Minerva Rising Press

(nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

https://minervarising.com/issue-15-roots-wings/

A Rock is not a Rifle New Verse News, November 2018

Awaiting your Return  Poets Reading the News, Oct. 19, 2018

a ghazal for Jamal Kashoggi.  https://tinyurl.com/y2bexdkk (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

Spaceship window Haiku Windows June 6, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/y5zj5bxm

Memorial New Verse News, May 2, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/yyfpothy

AGAIN, A GUN New Verse News, April 11, 2018

https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2018/04/again-gun.html

Thank You New Verse News, March 1, 2018
https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-kids-are-and-all-right-alright.html

His Seed, How I loved It Starline 41.1, Winter 2018, SFPA

“near visible realms” Scifaikuest NOVEMBER 2017 PRINT edition 

INK Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017

Slow Drag Riddled with Arrows, June 20thed. by Shannon Connor Winward 2017

SKATE in Open Minds, ed. by Casia Shreyer June 2017

https://tinyurl.com/y4hybxno

You’ve Become Unsafe Ground Breath and Shadow, Spring 2017, ed. By Chris Kuell 

Mommy’s Arias April 29, NationalPoetryMonth.ca  (AngelHousePress, 2017).

Who New Verse News www.newversenews.comMonday, April 10, 2017

 

Old Flame Sexuality Anthology, Ed by Michael Czarnecki, The Arts of the Southern Finger Lakes/Foothills Press, March, 2017

Cassandra Andromeda Spaceways #66 March, 2017

DRAGON Faerie Magazine, Spring 2017 Mary McMyne, poetry editor

Fixing Face, Tax Deadline, Reminiscence Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks, ed by Sandra Jackson Opoku and Quraysh Lansana, Feb. 2017

River Road The Fourth River, MFA program in Creative Writing at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Feb. 8, 2017 nominated for Best of the Net

'Routine, I Fly Into Your Indifference, and Dentist Visit'  Best of Breath and Shadow Anthology,  December,2016

Resignation The Font Journal Volume II 2016 http://thefontjournal.com/poetry-on-resignation/

Warning Ironhorse Review, Photofinish Contest winner December 31, 2016

Betty Carter The Poeming Pigeon:  poems about music, Vol2. No. 2, November 2016 http://www.thepoetrybox.com/_DetailPagesBookstore/TPP-MusicOrderPage.html

Ink Yellow Chair Review, Horror Issue, October 2016 http://www.yellowchairreview.com/horror2016

Mysticeti Eye to the Telescope #22, The Science Fiction Online Journal of Speculative Poetry, October 15, 2016, Ghosts ed. by Shannon Connor Winward
https://eyetothetelescope.com/archives/022issue.html

“Before Us,” The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop, ed. by Diane Lockward published by Terrapin Books, September, 2016 http://www.terrapinbooks.com/the-crafty-poet-ii-a-portable-workshop.html

Standing Rock Resistance The New Verse News, Sept. 22, 2016

 http://www.newversenews.com/ 

  

My PTSD or 558 and counting The New Verse News 7/25/2016     http://www.newversenews.com/ 

Health Care Close Encounters with One’s Own Femininity

 http://onesownfemininity.com/2016/07/09/303/

Domesstick Rock the Chair Winner, Yellow Chair, June 12, 2016 http://www.yellowchairreview.com/single-post/2016/06/12/Domesstick

4 70  The News Verse News, June 8, 2016, http://www.newversenews.com/

Endangered Rattle, Poets Respond winner, June 5, 2016,http://www.rattle.com/endangered-by-akua-lezli-hope/ 

Komagatu Maru   The News Verse News,

http://www.newversenews.com/ May 26, 2016

Sisko The Cossack Review Number 6, April 2016

http://www.thecossackreview.com/blog/2016/04/04/interview-with-akua-lezli-hope/

Carriage The Doll Collection, Terrapin Books, ed. by Diane Lockward, Spring 2016

http://www.terrapinbooks.com/the-doll-collection.html

Eating Verse Strange Horizons, April 2016

http://strangehorizons.com/2016/20160411/hope-p.shtml

Lost Streets Silver Blade, Winter 2016

http://www2.silverblade.net/2016/02/lost-streets/ February 23, 2016

Trees Tree Whispers, 2016 https://treewhispers.com/tree-stories-2/trees-for-albert-akua-lezli-hope-new-york/

Departures Tiny Text https://twitter.com/Tiny_Text/status/701913131291774977 February 22, 2016

Incubation Tiny Text January 25, 2016

https://twitter.com/Tiny_Text/status/691780108709789697

Noragami Eye to the Telescope, January 15, 2016

http://eyetothetelescope.com/archives/019issue.html

Mouse Song, Waking Daddy, Hubble 25 Gyroscope Review, January 1, 2016

http://www.gyroscopereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ISSUE-16-1.pdf

Couplet The Million Line Poem

https://tupelopress.wordpress.com/the-million-line-poem/ November 16, 2015

Resignation Rattle 11/8/2015 Poets Respond

http://www.rattle.com/poetry/resignation-by-akua-lezli-hope/

Neverland SubSaharan Magazine, November 2015

http://subsaharanmagazine.com/2015/11/02/neverland/

No Young People Here Narrative Matters, Health AffairsOctober 2015

You Are a Job  http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/10/22/narrative-matters-poems-on-vulnerable-populations-and-patients/

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/10/29/narrative-matters-poems-by-patients-and-consumers/

Halloween Crochet Science Fiction Poetry AssociationHalloween Online October 2015

http://www.sfpoetry.com/halloween.html

Metis Emits Science Fiction Poetry Association short poem winner 2015

http://www.sfpoetry.com/contests/15contest.html

Stone Steps to River Chemung River 2016 Calendar, published
September 2015

Malala, Behind the Curtain Killens Review of Arts & Letters, Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Fall 2014, Clarence V. Reynolds, Director, 

Chemung, The Way to Riverside Elementary Exhibition 

The Elmira Sesquicentennial

September 4,6-27, 2014

Routine, Dentist Visit, "I fly into your indifference” Breath and Shadow, Fall 2013 Issue

http://www.abilitymaine.org/breath/index.html

3 limericks and Sedge Stitch  Crochet Savvy Fall 2013

Abundance Hand Papermaking No. 103, July 2013

Elmira for Twain  Articulation's Poetry Post Project, Mark Twain Riverfront Park, Spring –Fall 2013 

Unremembered WordGathering, Volume 7, Issue I, March 2013

http://www.wordgathering.com/

Post Stitch Crochet Savvy Summer 2013

2012

Dances With Hooks Crochet Savvy December 2012

Crochet Crochet Savvy September 2012

Freeform Crochet Crochet Savvy Summer 2012

2011

Ask the Heart Too Much  Boogie, Erotic Remixes of the Dirty  Blues ed. by Robert Fleming, April 2011

Climate Change, Sanction Sanctum, Plant  Three Coyotes Summer Fall 2011 Volume 1.2

Seneca Stone Canoe, 2011

We Have No Earlids Breath and Shadow, Winter 2011 Issue, Volume 8, Number 1

http://www.abilitymaine.org/breath/index.html

2010

Song Through the Wall The 100 Best African American Poems ed. by Nikki Giovanni SourceBooks, 2010

Smell of Firemen

Spring Harvest and Haiku Breath and Shadow, April 2010

 http://www.abilitymaine.org/breath/index.html

Trees for Albert Tree Whispers, January 29, 2010 https://treewhispers.com/tree-stories-2/trees-for-albert-akua-lezli-hope-new-york/

2009

Aretha’s Hat THINK: poems for ARETHA FRANKLIN'S Inauguration Day Hat, June 2009 edited by Patricia Spears Jones, BOMB

Bloom Bloom, The ARTS of the Southern finger Lakes,

Poetry anthology 2009

2007

Mesa Poets Respond to The Buffalo Soldier Writers& Books, Rochester, NY 2007

2006

Ground Door Walls Sky

After “In the Patio VIII (1950)” Language of Color: Writers Respond to the Paintings of Georgia O’Keefe, published by Writers & Books and the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, 2006

How Gardeners Say Grace 10X10 4 Cave Canem, NYC, 2006

Chemung  Chemung River anthology, 2005, edited by Akua Lezli Hope, published by YWCA Elmira, New York

2005

Summer (5 haiku) Knocking on the Silence, Finger Lakes anthology, edited by Donna Marbach, 

Foothills Publishing, 2005

Dancing on Daddy's Feet My Soul to His Spirit: Soulful Expressions from Black Daughters to Their Fathers, Melda Beaty, Editor, 2005

2004

Sunday Drive/Black in Appalachia Two Voices, Two Pages, Geva Theatre and Writers and Books, December 13, 2004 theatre reading/performance of work

  2003

Rigid Liquid Glass Works, and anthology of poems and stories, edited by Jennifer Bosveld, Puddding House Publications, 2003

2002

Freedom (164) Poems for All, September, 2002

Not Final, Just Next (165) 

The Them Gone  Cave Canem Anthology 2002,

 Cave Canem, 2003

Hard Won Country  The Year’s Best Writing, Writer’s Digest Guides, April 2003

Health Care Moon Journal Fall/Winter 2002 Volume VII Issue 2 ed. by Mary H. Ber

2000

“The Becoming,”  DARK MATTER, (first!) anthology of African   American Science Fiction, ed. by Sheree R.  Thomas, Time Warner Books, 2000

“My Mommy Gone #15,”  WORDS OF WISDOM, Poet’s Theater 20th   Anniversary Anthology, ed. by B. O’Brien, J.  Damerell and C.J. Houghtaling, H&H Press,  PA, 2000

Included "Night and Day: The Double Lives of Artists  in America" by Gloria Klaiman, Praeger Pub  Text, August 2000

1999

Inventing the Food, for Shimmer,  Bluelight Corner, Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex and Romantic Love, ed.  by Rosemarie Robotham, Three Rivers Press, NY, 1999

Chock full O’ Nuts Will Work for Peace, New Political Poetry,  PA, 1999

1998

Health Care, Way From Here MASK,  Earth’s Daughters Collective, Buffalo, NY, 1998 

Leavetaking for Shimmer, A Different Drum, Moondance 

My Muse Relentless August 1996, http://www.

cyberspc. mb. ca/~fullmoon/moondance 

EMBOUCHURE, poems on jazz and other musics collection of 41 poems, ArtFarm Press, Corning, NY,  Oct. 1995

"my mother is an indictment..", " who cries CompuServe CD (CompuServe Incorporated)

with wasting dawn..."

Genny Chain, edited by Osman 

and Spahr, Buffalo, NY, 1995

  

Revoltillo Bacalao, Hairdressers, "my mother Meanderings, April 1995

is an indictment.." 


1994

http://newsavanna.com/meanderings /me204/me20403.shtml

Song Through the Wall EYEBALL, St. Louis Missouri, 1994

Finishing, Water Bears No Scars, My Muse Relent less, - SISTERFIRE, an anthology of
 Song Through the Wall Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry, ed. by  Charlotte Watson-Sherman, HarperCollins,  1994

950 Hoe Avenue, Water Bears No Scars, CHAZ, Obsidian II, Black 

My Muse Relentless, Scent, So Much to Show,  Literature in Review, Fall

Tell, Imprint, Remember the Source Winter, Volume 8 Number 2, ed. by Gerald  Barrax, NCSU, 


1993

To Every Birth Its Pain What is Found There, Notebooks on Poetry

and Politics by Adrienne Rich, W.W. Norton,  1993

Praise Song Blue Cage, ed. by Barry Fogden, England, 1993

Essay  Writing From the New Coast: Technique,  University of Buffalo,  Garlic Press1993


1992

Fall, Low Moon, Way From Here,  The Fireweed Journal ed. 

Making Poems, by Wm. M. Frenchy 

Truck Stop, After Haying De RushÈ, Spring 1992, Yukon/Alaska  Publishing

On Air Catalyst Magazine #10, ed. By Pearl Cleage,  Atlanta, Ga., 1992

Afro Funk, 235 Fifth Avenue Hambone, ed. by Nathaniel Mackey, Santa  Cruz, CA. 1992

When the horn fits, blow it, Songs they could sing,  Erotique Noire/Black Erotica ed by Decosta

Telegram from Topeka, Interpenetration Side Two -Willis, Martin and Bell, /Anchor,1992

Hairdressers African American Review, J.Weixlman, ed. 1992

 

1991

Alien Homeboy, The Big Three-O, This Mother, Obsidian II, Spring 1991, 

Memorial Day Gerald Barrax, ed., NCSU, Raleigh, NC 

Prayer Catalyst, ed. By Pearl Cleage, Atlanta, GA, 1991


1989

For Bob Thompson, New Alchemy, Report on Contact/II, a poetry review, No. 53/54/55,

Training Assignment One, When the Horn fits,  NY, NY, Summer /Fall 1989

Blow It

 

1988

A Valentine, Interpenetration Side Two, Obsidian II, Winter 1988, Gerald Barrax,

For the Homeless NCSU

Songs they could sing #328 Shooting Star Review, Winter 1988, Pittsburgh,  

1987

On the One West Wind Review, Department of English,Oregon State College, Ashland, Oregon, Spring, 1987

Acknowledgment, Village You Come From,  Obsidian II, Black Literature in Review, 


1986

Fuel for Beginners II, West Street Winter 1986, NCSU, Raleigh, NC 

Interpenetration Side One Starline, Science Fiction Poetry Association’s magazine, Volume 9, Issue 4/July-August 1986

Leaving is a Little Death Black American Literature Forum, Joe  

Weixlmann, editor, Volume 20. No. 3, Fall  1986, Indiana State University

“i will never forget you,  IKON magazine, Art Against Apartheid 

South Africa” issue, Second Series #5/6, 1986 


1985

West Street, The Interview ARTSCOPE, Nov/Dec 1985, Chemung 

“she knits acrylic hosannas...” Valley Arts Council, Corning, NY

We Are The New Heat Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction, Magazine 4/1985 


1984

766-CQT, Bloodletting St. Mark’s Poetry Project anthology from

Lyric  ArtistísCall Against U.S. Intervention in

 Central and South America, 1984

“who cries..”Songs they could sing #482 HAMBONE NO. 4, Santa Cruz, CA 1984

Survival is its own Revenge


1983

“my mother is an indictment”, LAMENT, Confirmation, anthology of Afrikan- 

August  American women writers, Quill (Morrow), NY  1983

Betty Carter at theVanguard, Brain Gets Black and in Brooklyn, Universal Black Writer Blame II, Keep Watch  Press, 3/1983 Bklyn., NY

Getting to Know, Extended Outlooks, the Iowa Review

Gowanus Canal  Anthology of Contemporary American

women writers, Collier, NY, 1983


1982

With my Honey, Atlanta,Disarm myself and you besides  

Womenfolk IKON Magazine, Ikon Press, NY, 1982


1981

“my mother is an indictment..,” UMB Westside Words, Westside Publishing, 

NY, NY

Survival is Its Own Revenge, Revoltillo Bacaloa, Black Scholar, Sausalito,CA, 1981

To Sister for Mother Woman Poet East, Women-In-Literature, Reno,

No One Comes Home to Lonely Women NV, 1981

Liberation Begins with Common Sense, Pamoja Tutashinda, Spring 1981, Williams 

People Giving Up What They Need Not College,Williamstown, Massachusetts

Surrender, UMB


1980

"collect images..." SUNBURY NINE, Sunbury Press, 

NY, 1980

Bebop Womantones: Betty Carter inter- Heresies: Women in Music, Heresies

view Collective, NY 1980

For Hope Freshtones: Volume One, edited by Pat Lee,
One and One Communications, Inc., NY, 1978

D&C C.O.P.E. (Coping with the Overall Pregnancy- Parenting Experience), edited by Marianne  Smith, Boston, MA, 1978

"collect images...", For Djamila Conditions: Three, eds. Bulkin, Clausen,  Klepfisz, Shore, Brooklyn, NY, Spring 1978

AVATAR, D&C, "my mother is an indict ment",  Ordinary Women, eds. Jones, Esteves, 

To Every Birth Its Pain Chiang, Miles, Ordinary Women Press, NY,  Spring 1978

For Ken, Among the Questions Never Asked BOPP, Chapter IV, International
Biannual Literary Magazine, eds.  Obayani,
Troupe, Cannon, NY 1977


1976

"A girl leaves the shower...","mine is the anguish", "we celebrate you"    HOODOO 5, Special 

Women's Issue, eds. Clifton, Khalil, Lorde,  Houston, Energy BlackSouth Press, 1976


Chapbook LOVECYCLES, Center for New  Images, NY, 1976


1975

4/16/75 Essence Magazine, Vol. 6 No. 4, 

New York, Essence 

Communications, August 1975

"if I could speak you...", To Every Birth Its Pain Johari II, edited by William 

Womansong, For Marte Stanley, Center for New Images, 1975

Legacy Blues PIQUE, Williams College, 

Williamstown, MA, 1975

Sweet Bitters, you play music too loud Knockabout, Williams 

College, Williamstown, MA,1975

Prologue, Picture(for Daddy Edwin), On BLACK SUN, ed. by Barbara Banks and 

individualism, Prologue, Lovecycles, " i, too..." Akua Lezli Hope, Williams College,  Williamstown, MA, 1975


1974

if i could speak you... , poet can u? MWENEA, Queens Community  College, New York, 1974

if i could speak you... , poet can u? Johari I, Center for New Images, AFRAM,  Bayside, N.Y., 1974, Gerald Gladney, editor

music screams in the mind, His Own  Keeping the Faith, anthology of 

Maniac Self, Lovesigns, Ode Black American Women Writers ed. by Pat Exum, Fawcett Press, NY, 1974

LIFECYCLES, dramatization of my poetry Adams Theatre, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.,  1974

" a girl leaves the shower hummin..." Knockabout, Williams College, 

We Must Mark Our Ballots, Friends 1974


1973

 Pieces of a Man (prose), Humongous Pamoja Tutashinda, Kujichagulia, AfroSociety,  Williams College. Williamstown MA, 1973

It be's hard bein queenly Kujicahgulia, WBSU newspaper,  Williams College, Williamstown, MA., Feb,  1973

poet, can u Knockabout, Vol. 1 No. 1, ed. by  Gasperini and Stekler,  Williamstown, MA, Spring 1973

For Sterling Brown Kujichagulia WBSU newspaper, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass, Nov.  1973

1972

To Gabby, For Gabby, To Laura,  Pamoja Tutashinda, ed. by 

Milk Flows Kujichagulia, AfroSociety, Williams College,  Williamstown, MA, April 1972

Ode, Joe Says the Sister Laughing , Line ed. by Cohen, Winter 1972,  Williams College, Williamstown, MA

Homesick Led Barron, ed. by James and Walker, Winter  1972, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 2

PERFORMANCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS

    

 2025

Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading of Speculative Love Poems

Feb. 9 7 to 8 p on Facebook Live and via Zoom

with Miguel o Mitchell, DA Xiaolin Spires Herb Kauderer and AkuaLezli Hope


2024

Black Poetry Day Reading October 17, 2024 Akua Lezli Hope

with Linda Addison, Miguel Mitchell, and Jacqueline Johnson

https://www.facebook.com/1123359710/videos/1201605654471780/


Flights of Foundry September 2024

Panels 

Afrofuturism and the AfroFantastic

Chronic Disability

Sustainable Community Development

How to Read Online

Speculative Poetry Reading https://flights-of-foundry.org


Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading for Disability Awareness Day with Ennis Bashe, Herb Kauderer and John C. Mannone, July 14, https://www.facebook.com/AkuaLezli/videos/8372868526077526/


Balticon May 2024 

Microfiction and Micropoetry panelist

Akua Lezli Hope poetry Reading https://2024.balticon.org/


2023

Speculative Poetry Writing Workshop 

Speculative poetry is humanity’s primordial literature. Not only is it the first verse, it is the first way humans wrote about and recorded their imaginations. Nearly everyone knows some speculative poetry – from nursery rhymes, to Edgar Allen Poe to Puff the magic dragon, it’s been there all along, This workshop will focus on tools for creating your own to present the unreal as real 

Thursday, November 9th and 16th

From 6 to 7 15 pm Akua Lezli Hope sponsored by the Southeast Steuben Public Library

Via Zoom


Black Poetry Day reading  sponsored by Southeast Steuben Public Library

Via Zoom Tuesday, October 17 From 7 to 8 pm  Akua Lezli Hope, Linda Addison, Miguel Mitchell, Bryant O’Hara Via Zoom

Juneteenth Poetry Reading by Akua Lezli Hope Monday June 19, 2023

From 7 to 8 pm presented by the Southeast Steuben Public Library

Via Zoom

Balticon 57

at 2:30 PM SFPA Speculative Poetry Panel                     
Sat 5:30 PM The Future of Verse: Balancing Creativity and AI in Speculative Poetry
Sun 2:30 pm Black Speculative Poetry

Flights of Foundry May 2023

Form poetry Akua Lezli HOPE, Wendy Van Camp, Maria Picone 

Creating a Chapbook: How To Angela Acosta, Wendy Van Camp, Andrew Najberg

Akua Lezli Hope

Reading

Akua Lezli HOPE

Speculative Poetry: The oldest genre you've never heard of

Akua Lezli HOPE, Cislyn Smith, Ewen Ma, Hour 25

Creating For an Audience vs. Making Just For You

Thiago Ambrósio Lage, Akua Lezli HOPE, Suzanne Walker Joyce Reynolds-Ward Hour 31

Love Poems for Valentine’s Day

Poetry Reading by Akua Lezli Hope Karen Alpha Wendy Low

Tuesday, February 14, 2023 7 to 8 pm sponsored by the Southeast Steuben Public Library Via Zoom

  

2022

Afrofuturistic Speculative Pastoral Poetry, Presentation and Reading with Christina M. Rau, December 21,

https://youtu.be/frxdmey5Wgw

World Fantasy Convention World Fantasy Convention Combining Outlooks: Artists Who Are Authors with Iris Compiet, Terri Windling, Kathleen Jennings, Ursula Vernon https://www.wfc2022.org/

The Rise of Speculative Poetry panel  November 2022 with Brandon O’ Brien, Lynne Sargent, Holly Walrath https://www.wfc2022.org/

Afrofuturistic Speculative Pastoral Poetry, Presentation and Reading with Bryant O’Hara, September 23,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quHUp6HLI64

Chicon 8 the 80th World Science Fiction Convention, September 2, 2022, https://chicon.org/

Speculative Poetry Readings – Reading Friday, September 2nd 2022 

Chicon 8 the 80th World Science Fiction Convention, September 2, 2022, https://chicon.org/

Black Speculative Poetry - Panel Friday, September 2nd 2022

Chicon 8 the 80th World Science Fiction Convention, September 2, 2022, https://chicon.org/

Friday, September 2nd 2022 Reading - Akua Lezli Hope – Reading Friday, September 2nd 2022

Afrofuturistic Speculative Pastoral Poetry, Presentation and Reading with Eugen Bacon, June 24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_m58tgNRR4

Juneteenth Poetry Reading June 17 Southeast Steuben County Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj7KTf3ISNI&t=29s

Self As Source Poetry Writing Workshop June 7 &14  Southeast Steuben County Library

Speculative Poetry Reading, Balticon May 27, 2022

Poetry that Punches above Its Word Count, Panel Balticon, May 29, with Mary Turzillo,moderator,  Mary Soon Lee, Javon Goard, Bryant O’Hara

Speculative Poetry Writing Workshop, part of SpringWrites Festival, May 26

Afrofuturist Speculative Poetry reading, curator, participant, part of SpringWrites, May 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKMY8-3GoE8 Akua Lezli Hope, Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss, Bryant O’Hara, Jacqueline Johnson, Linda Addison, Terese Mason Pierre and Uche Ogbuji,  present their Afrofuturistic speculative poems.

Host, Rhysling Short Poems Reading, May 6, 2022

  

Presentation to Professor Albert White’s Class, Touro College, April 25, 

Panel participation, Black Speculative Poetry, Flights of Foundry, April 10

Panel participation, The State of Speculative Poetry, Flights of Foundry, April 10

speculative poetry reading solo Flights of Foundry, April 9

Panel participation, Strange Resonances: Poetry Craft and Technique for Speculative Writing, Flights of Foundry, April 8

Afrofuturist Speculative Pastoral Poetry Reading and Discussion with Jaqueline Johnson, March 25 live on Facebook Via Zoom

Reading, February 15, PaperCraft Book Launch


2021 

Discon III

poetry reading , moderator, Speculative Poetry,with Mary Soon Lee, Cassandra Rose Clarke, F. Brett Cox,  December 18

Solo poetry reading, December 17 Discon III

panel, Black Speculative Poetry, Discon III December 16, with Sheree Renée Thomas, Brandon O’Brien,


Speculative Poetry with Akua Lezli Hope presented on December 7th of 2021 via Zoom in conjunction with the Southeast Steuben County Library.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C97WdqCUfok


Interview on Nombono https://sundressblog.com/2021/11/06/interview-with-akua-lezli-hope-editor-of-nombono-speculative-poetry-by-bipoc-poets-sd/


Strong Women Strange Wolds poetry Reading SWSW 10/21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRxhlug8ZcUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OUAo1u_2-I&t=210s

Binghamton Poetry Project Summer Reading Event, Saturday, Aug. 21st at Noon on Zoom

Black Writer Workspace Workshop, Writing Speculative Poetry, July 31, 2021

Poets in Pajamas 115, June 27, https://www.facebook.com/events/430727164709892


Readercon Speculative Poets in Conversation
Akua Lezli Hope, Wendy Van Camp Sun 4:00 PM, Main Track 3
Akua Lezli Hope and Wendy Van Camp discuss the many faces and facets of speculative poetry august

Pensive Reading, Juneteenth BLM reading, Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts, June 16

SFFCON SF&F Poetry Reading and Discussion with Wendy Van Camp, Angela Yuriko Smith,D.A. Xiaolin Spires and Deborah Kolodji, Jun 12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ_8xZMNZAU


Balticon 55, Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association Group Reading with Mary Soon Lee, Wendy Van Camp and Vince Gotera, May 29

Balticon55, Poetry Reading (Solo) May 28

Balticon55, Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association Panel on Speculative Poetry with Mary Soon Lee, Wendy Van Camp and Vince Gotera, May 28


Spring Writes, Social Justice Reading, May 14, Community Arts Partnership, Ithaca

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXoHkJL_lNA


Wreath for a Wayfarer book Launch reading, April 29


PenguiCon group reading, solo reading, and panel April 24 

Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association: A Speculative Poetry Reading

followed by Conversations With Speculative Poets, Inspirations Tips and Community

Four poets talk about the inspiration behind their poetry, their writing processes, and the community of speculative poetry.

Pensive Reading, April 21 Black Lives Matter issue launch Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts

Flights of Foundry group reading and panel on editing speculative poetry, April 17

Reading for World Poetry Day, Wreaths for a Wayfarer an anthology of poems in honour of Pius Adesami, http://bit.ly/worldpoetryday2021, March 21,2021

Virtuous Con, Speculative Poetry Reading, Feb 21https://youtu.be/RIswe3VXMNA

Writers and Books, Poetry Reading, January 13, 2021 https://youtu.be/_SgW8vINUm4

  

2020 

Hawaiicon, September 25, speculative poetry reading

Robercon, September 26, Speculative Poetry: Tips for Writing the Best Verse in the ‘Verse

Speculative Poetry Reading: Dramatic Journeys to Unknown Realms Akua Lezli Hope, Reading, Robercon panel and reading, 9/26/2020, 

Speculative Poetry: Tips for Writing the Best Verse in the ‘Verse, Speculative Poetry Reading: Dramatic Journeys to Unknown Realms, https://tinyurl.com/roberconspecpowriting Writing panel  https://tinyurl.com/roberconspecporeading Poetry ReadingFLXGIVES, June, Interview and Reading

https://youtu.be/2g5hJOuTlBE   35:09 

Flash Horror, Flash Fairytales Reading for the Okra Project, Saturday, August 1, 

The Ferguson Interviews, https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1143726676008238  about 2:08 August 9, 2020

NASFIC,  North American science fiction convention speculative poetry reading, August 23, 2020 https://columbus2020nasfic.org/readings @ 1:53

SEMOCON, southeast Missouri sf/f convention, Sept 19, speculative poetry reading https://www.speculativepoetry.com/recorded 


2019

Senior Notebook, 2 segments, Interview and Reading May

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xTk4b7Q3ec  Akua on Senior notebook May 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UohjFEHT7L0&t=25s

Poets in Pajamas, Reading, Sundress, November

https://www.facebook.com/poetsinpajamas/videos/400889337483035/ 


2018

March 25 Book Party, reading. Drake House, 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY 14830

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR4Ka5bzTdE&feature=youtu.be


2017

June 17 Juneteenth, EOC, Ernie Davis Center, Elmira, New York


2016

July 26  Poets in Play Series, SoulFull Cup Cafe, Corning, NY


2008

April Corning Free Academy sponsored by The Big Read Corning, NY

(To Kill A mockingbird)

April Literary Women, 171 Cedar Arts Center accompanied by 

 harpist Maryalice Little Corning, NY


2007

 April Myth and Transcendence in Your Life Story (W&B, Rochester, NY)

May Writing Aerobics (W&B Rochester, NY)

September 11  Writers & Books Genesee Reading Series

November Original poems on Cotton, Textiles, Fabrics and Fibers

 The Baobab Cultural Center, Rochester, NY


2006

November George Eastman House Rochester, NY Animal Poems

December Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY

Language of Color: Writers Respond to the Paintings of Georgia O’Keefe 


2005

January Short Story Writing Workshop corning Painted Post School District

February Black History Month Reading at YWCA Elmira and the Twin Tiers

March  Myth and Transcendence Women's History Month Poetry Workshop YWCA Elmira 

and the Twin Tiers

Women's History Month Reading with Mary Alice Little, harpist, Mansfield University

April Ways of Knowing, Ways of Showing Poetry writing Workshop at Southeast Steuben Public Library

Reading at Southeast Steuben Public Library 

Genesee Reading at Writers and Books, National Poetry Month

May Women's Poetry Workshop at YWCA Elmira and the Twin Tiers

June Juneteenth Poetry Workshop


2004

September A Celebration of Books, Corning, NY September 25 

January Short Story Writing Workshops Corning-Painted Post School District


2003

December Short Story Writing Workshops Corning-Painted Post School District

November Poetry Workshop Steele Memorial Library, NY

Memories and Dreams: Poetry Workshop for Seniors

Southeast Steuben Library, NY

June 15 The Spiritual in My Art

  Talk at the Unitarian Universalist Church Owego, NY

June 5,6,7 UnPacking, dance poetry collaboration with choreographer Lois Welk, part of American Dance Asylum’s New Works and Remembrances

171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY

March 1  Reading with 171 Women's Chorale 171 Cedar Arts Center Corning, NY

March 2 Reading with 171 Women's Chorale 171 Cedar Arts Center

March 13 Ordinary Women Anniversary Poetry Reading at the Sol Goldman Y

 344 East 14th Street. NY, NY 

March 22  Poetry Workshop at Steele Memorial Library 1-4 p.m. Elmira, NY

March 23 Poetry Reading at Steele Memorial Library 2-4 p.m. Elmira, NY

2003

April 5 Honoring an Escaped Slave Through Poetry and Song

Benefit for the John W. Jones Museum, an evening in poetry and song 7 p.m.,

171 Cedar Arts Center Corning, NY


2002

Short Story Writing Workshops Corning-Painted Post School District

Peaceful Gathering Coffeehouse, as a part of the annual DIALOGUE THROUGH POETRY WEEK and UNESCO's WORLD POETRY DAY. Over 200 poetry readings in 150 cities were held worldwide to discuss "can poetry help create a culture of peace and non-violence in the world?" Corning, NY, March 22 

Tombstone Café, for Black History Month with Jasper and Sharon McGruder presenting an evening of theater and song, Waverly, NY, February 2


2001

Short Story Writing Workshop Lindley Presho Elementary School, 5th grade (2 classes), Presho, NY, December

Poetry Reading with Jesse Bennett on saxophone, Diversity! series at the Waverly Opera House, July 5, Waverly, NY

Poetry Reading with Charlie James at Bookmarks Corning, NY, April 5 

Panel on Writing, Barnes and Noble, Big Flats, NY, April 25

Poetry Reading with Charlie James, Ellen Tifft, Robert Darling, Barnes and Noble, Big Flats, NY, April 28 


2000

Reading and signing for Dark Matter, Barnes and Noble, Big Flats, NY, August 20 

Poetry Workshop- The World’s Largest Writing Workshop, Barnes and Noble, Big Flats, NY, October 14


1999

10 West, Mansfield, PA, June 4

April is National Poetry Month Reading Series at Bookmarks, April 16, Corning, NY

Something Loving, Poetry Reading, Rockwell Museum, February 14


1998

Sojourner Truth Celebration performance with Voices of Fire Reading Choir 

March 6 &7 

April is National Poetry Month Reading Series at Bookmarks, April 9, April 

10, Corning NY

Gathering of Poets Reading, Mansfield University, April 17

Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Consumer Square, May 21, Horseheads, NY 

10 West, Mansfield, PA, Oct. 2

Each One Teach One, classroom workshop, Northside Blodgett, Corning, NY December 9


1997 

Reading Series, 10 West Wellesborough Mansfield, PA, Oct. 31

Sterling Brown Symposium, Howard University Chapel, Washington, DC, October 26

Chautauqua Institution, presentation, Jazz Poetry: function at the Junction, August 15

Chautauqua Institution, Writer's Center, August 10

The Festival of the Lakes, Saranac Lake, NY, June 28 

Southport Correctional Facility, South port, NY, June 18


1996  

Southport Correctional Facility, Southport, NY, September 6,

The Professor's Place, Watkins Glen, NY, July 17

JUNETEETH with Voices of Fire Reading Choir, Centerway Square, Corning, NY June 22

HORNELL Poet's Theatre, June 13, Hornell, NY

Cosmopolitan Women's Club, Dinner, Fashion Show, Reading, May 17, Radisson Hotel, Corning

1996  American Association of University Women, reading, Corning ,NY, March 20 with Rhonda  Morton, Susan Gale and Karen Kirby

Valentine's Day Wedding Reading, Feb 14, Corning, NY

Black History Month Reading, Corning Community College, Feb. 13

Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY, Feb .23, reading and poetry workshops


1995 

The Corning Museum of Glass Community Open House, Sept. 15, with Dick Riddick

Harriet Tubman Home Gathering , July 22, Auburn, NY

JUNETEENTH, June 17, Centerway Square, Corning, NY with Dick Riddick 

Harambee at Mt. Neboe Lodge, Elmira, NY, Feb. 18 with Dick Riddick on conga and percussion

Three Rivers Reading Series at Medley's Restaurant,  with Dick Riddick on percussion, April 27

Southport Correctional Facility, Feb. 4


1993 

Juneteenth Celebration, Centerway Square, Corning, NY, June 19

171 Cedar Arts Center 25th Anniversary Celebration Reading May 23 accompanied by Felicia Kessel on keyboards with Michael Czarnecki

Something Loving, Poetry Reading, Rockwell Museum, February 14

Chicago Cultural Center, Ragdale Writers Reading March 4


1992 

St. Marks Poetry Project with Vit Bakitis, NY, NY, November 11

Summer Reading Series, Claverack, NY August 16, 

Hornell Poets Theater, Hornell, NY, March 12

Something Loving, Poetry Reading, Rockwell Museum, February 14


1991 

Something Loving, Poetry Reading, Rockwell Museum, February 14,

Writing Workshop for Elmira Girls Scouts, February 16, Elmira, NY

 Visions and Voices, celebration for National Women's History Month, March 1, 171 Cedar Arts  Center, Corning, NY

The Gas Station March 5, with Baron James Ashanti, New York City, New York

AIUSA Northeast Region Conference March 9, Boston University, Boston, MA

Poets Performance, Amnesty Annual General Meeting, Georgetown University, Washington,  D.C., 

June 15 

Radio Interview on WUDC (aired June 19) with E. Ethelbert Miller, Washington, D.C.

Young Author's Day, Corning Community College, November 25,

Kwanzaa presentation, Chemung Valley Unitarian Church, December 15


1990 

Chemung Valley Unitarian Fellowship, Martin Luther King Remembrance Poetry Reading, Feb. 4

Visions and Voices celebration for National Women's' History Month, 171 Cedar Arts Center, March 2

Young Author's Day poetry workshop, Corning Community College, March 6, Corning, NY 

Women Poets at Barnard with Marilyn Hacker, March 8, NY, NY

Corning Community College poetry workshop, April 9, Corning, NY

Corning Community College, April 11, Brown Bag Series 

Northside Blodgett Elementary School visitor reader, Corning, NY

Mark Twain Quarry Farm, H.S. writing intensive, March 17, Elmira, NY

Steele Memorial Library, poetry writing workshop, March 24

Steele Memorial Library, annual poetry contest, guest poet, March 25

Conversations with Southern Tier Women interview/reading, May 14

Readings Series at Stars with Walt Franklin, Corning, NY, June 19 

Gathering of the Minds coffeehouse, Corning, NY, June 21

Young Author's Day poetry workshop, Corning Community College, November 19


1989 

First Ladies of Poetry, Lecture, Wednesday Morning Club, Park Church, Nov. 15, Elmira, NY

Poetry Writing Workshop, Mansfield University, Nov. 2, Mansfield Pa.

Poetry Reading, Mansfield University, Nov. 1, 1989, Mansfield, Pa.

Black Poets Day, Workshop 6th Grade, Parley Coburn School, October 7, 1989, Elmira, NY

171 Cedar Arts Center, Summer Reading Series, writing workshop, July 26, Corning, NY

171 Cedar Arts Center, Summer Reading Series, poetry reading, July 25, Corning, NY

Career Discussion and Poetry Writing Workshop, 8th grade, May 26, Prattsburg, NY

Career Discussion and Poetry Writing Workshop, Corning Free Academy, March 23, 6th grade,  Corning, NY

Reading for Thomas Hart Benton Exhibit at The Rockwell Museum, Literature from the Thirties, producer and reader, April 10, Corning, NY.

The Pew Rally Gospel Talent Show, All Saints Home Church of God in Christ, Sunday, April 2, Elmira, NY

Martin Luther King Reading, Church of God in Christ, January 15, Big Flats, NY, 


1988

 171 Cedar Arts Center, Summer Reading Series, writing workshop, July 25, Corning, NY 

171 Cedar Arts Center, Summer Reading Series, poetry reading, July 18, Corning, NY

North Country Community College, reading series organized by Maurice Kenny, March 21,  Saranac Lake, NY

Federal Correction Institute at Raybrook, poetry reading, March 21, Raybrook, NY

Young Author's Day, poetry writing workshop, Corning Community College, March 1  

Books Sandwiched In, book review series at Corning Public Library, lecture/review on Beloved by Toni Morrison, January 11


1987 

Poetry Society of America, 15 Gramercy Park , with NYFA Poetry Fellows, October 29, NY, NY

171 CEDAR ARTS CENTER, “Making Real the Dream,” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, jr.  birthday celebration, children’s workshop and evening performance, with Arthur Flowers and other performers, Corning, NY, January 19


1985 

ST. MARKS POETRY PROJECT, 10th Street and 2nd Avenue, with Patricia Jones and

 Marie Ponsot, May 22, NY, NY

BASEMENT WORKSHOP, 22 Catherine Street, with Marilyn Hacker, April 30, NY, NY

DOUBLE TALK SHOW, Sideshows by the Seashore, Coney Island boardwalk, with Roland  Legiardi-Laura, produced by Bob Holman, April 14, Brooklyn, NY.

1984 Art Against Apartheid, The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s, Oct. 21, NY, NY

Tompkins Square Festival Poetry Reading, June 17, Tompkins Square Park, NY, NY

First anniversary celebration of Black and in Brooklyn, Medgar Evers 

College, March 24, Brooklyn, NY

Artists’ Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, 

Jan. 18, NY, NY


1984 

Confirmation Anthology Reading and Book Party, Brooklyn Arts and 

Culture Association (BACA) Jan. 13, Brooklyn, NY


1983 

Washington Heights Community Art Gallery, Sept. 18, NY, NY

National Black United Front, International Women's Day, August 9, 

Brooklyn, NY


1982 

IKON MAGAZINE Benefit reading, NYU Law Auditorium, Nov., NY, NY 


1981 

BLACK WRITERS UNION READING SERIES, December 16, NY, NY

Politics of Writing, Calabash Workshop Event, Reading at CAT Video, 

Oct. 25, Harlem, NY

American Writers Congress, Poetry Reading, Oct. 10, NY, NY

Galeria Morivivi, Reading Series, September 13, NY, NY

Cafe Figaro, Sunday Poetry Reading Series, June 7, NY, NY

Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, Arts & Culture Center, Poetry Reading, June 6, 

Brooklyn, NY

Afrikan Poetry Theater, May 17, Jamaica, NY

Memorial to Larry Neal, Countee Cullen Library, April 25, Harlem, NY

Black Writers Union Fund-raiser, Creative Arts Center, April 11, Brooklyn, NY

Sunbury 9 Reading, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Live Broadcast WBAI, January, NY, NY


1980 

Interviewed by Larry Neal, WWRL-Radio, Fall 1980, NY, NY


1979 

The Coalition, Club 57, St. Marks Place, New York, April 5, 1979


1978 

The New York State Book Fair, Martin Luther King Jr. High School, NY, NY, October 8

Corner Post Café Series, Brooklyn, NY, June 25

Pearl's Place, Sunday Poetry Series, May 7, NY, NY

Women's Center, Brooklyn College, April 17, Brooklyn, NY

New Rican Village, March 24, NY, NY

Manhattan Theater Club, Poetry Series, February 28, NY, NY


1977 

Arthur Kill Correctional Facility, August, Staten Island, NY

Chaz Restaurant, Montage Series, July 16, NY


1976

1976 Bedford Hills Correctional Institution, October 30, Bedford Hills, NY, 

Rejuvenation, December 26, Brooklyn, New York  


1975 

Look Homeward, Choreopoem, Black Movements Festival, January, 

Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. and neighboring colleges


1974 Coffeehouse performances and on-campus readings,

1973 Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts

1972

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