PUBLICATIONS, PERFORMANCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS

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For those looking for reading packets for the 2020 Rhyslings, my eligible poems are available here.

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