PUBLICATIONS, PERFORMANCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS
PUBLICATIONS
“near visible realms” Scifaikuest NOVEMBER 2017 PRINT edition
Cook Fiolet & Wing, An Anthology of Domestic
Fabulism, 2017
INK Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017
Slow Drag Riddled with Arrows, June 20th ed. by Shannon
Connor Winward
SKATE Open Minds, ed. by Casia Shreyer June 2017
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.com
Monday, 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
'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/_DetailPagesBooks
tore/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
“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 NewVerse News, Sept. 22, 2016
My PTSD or 558 and counting The New Verse News 7/25/2016
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,
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
Departures Tiny Text
https://twitter.com/Tiny_Text/status/70191313129
1774977 February 22, 2016
Incubation Tiny Text January 25, 2016
https://twitter.com/Tiny_Text/status/69178010870978969
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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/neve
rland/
No Young People Here Narrative Matters, Health Affairs October 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 Association Halloween
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 2013
Elmira for Twain Articulation's Poetry Post Project, Mark Twain
Riverfront Park, Spring –Fall 2013
Unremembered WordGathering, Volume 7, Issue I, March 2013
Post Stitch Crochet Savvy Summer 2013
Dances With Hooks Crochet Savvy December 2012
Crochet Crochet Savvy September 2012
Freeform Crochet Crochet Savvy Summer 2012
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
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/
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
Mesa Poets Respond to The Buffalo Soldier
Writers& Books, Rochester, NY 2007
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
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
Sunday Drive/Black in Appalachia Two Voices, Two Pages, Geva Theatre and
Writers and Books, December 13, 2004 theatre
reading/performance of work
Rigid Liquid Glass Works, and anthology of poems and stories,
edited by Jennifer Bosveld, Puddding House
Publications, 2003
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
“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
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
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.."
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
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
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
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
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,
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,
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
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
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
“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
With my Honey, Atlanta IKON Magazine, Ikon Press, NY, 1982
Disarm myself and you besides
Womenfolk
“my mother is an indictment..,” UMB Westside Words, Westside Publishing,
NY, NY
Survival is Its Own Revenge, Black Scholar, Sausalito,CA, 1981
Revoltillo Bacaloa
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
"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
"A girl leaves the shower...", HOODOO 5, Special
Women's Issue, eds.
"mine is the anguish", "we celebrate you" Clifton, Khalil, Lorde,
Houston, Energy BlackSouth Press, 1976
Chapbook LOVECYCLES, Center for New
Images, NY, 1976
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
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
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
To Gabby, For Gabby, To Laura, Pamoja Tutashinda, ed. by Simba Nyamavu
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?
PERFORMANCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS
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 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