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CHAPBOOK REVIEWS ( Reporting from the Belly of the Night)

Kai Davis Reviews Reporting from the Belly of the Night at Apiary Magazine

"Three Chapbooks That Marry the Written Word and Visual Art" at PLOUGHSHARES

SELECTED ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

"Ghosts" at Muzzle Magazine

"Song of Myself"  at HEArt -Human Equity Through Art

"Poem in which Azealia Banks Asks Me To Look into the Mirror" at STATIC

"Queen Pokou" at Brittle Paper

8 poems at The Wanderer

"Woman in an Abstract Field" at Les Amis de Beauford Delaney

"Listen" at The Stanford Arts Review

"On Hushed Sugarcane" at The Atlantic(online content)

"valentine for Sally Hemings" at The Academy of American Poets

"Apparitions"/ "Notes on Apparitions" at Winter Tangerine Review

"Nanny", "Ahou" & "Hidden Americans" at The Interlochen Review(Interlochen Arts Academy)

"Newton's First Law of Motion" at Apiary Magazine

 

SELECTED PRINT PUBLICATIONS:

"Ode to Liberty", The Best Teen Writing of 2012(edited and presented by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards)

"Palestine, Under the Bridge on 52nd Street",  Talking River Review

VIDEO

“One Poem: A Protest Reading in Support of Black Lives at The Academy of American Poets/The Poetry Coalition

"Won't You Wrap the Night Around Me" at The Stanford Spoken Word Collective(Stanford University)

"Open A World of Possible" (Written by Sojourner Ahébée, Narrated by Actress, Sarah Jessica Parker) at Scholastic, inc

 

Elegance/Refusal

 

Interviews

 
 
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Feature 1

Interview at Burn After Reading Poetry Collective.

 
First Lady Michelle Obama with the 2013 National Student Poets (from left: Michaela Coplen; Sojourner Ahebee, Nathan Cummings, Louis Lafair, and Aline Dolinh) in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Sept. 20, 2013. (Official White House…

First Lady Michelle Obama with the 2013 National Student Poets (from left: Michaela Coplen; Sojourner Ahebee, Nathan Cummings, Louis Lafair, and Aline Dolinh) in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Sept. 20, 2013.

(Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

Feature 2

"Student Poet Picks" at Poetry Society of America

 
 

In The News

 
 
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"Poetic Justice: Young Poets and the Good Society" by Ted Breyfogle, HuffPost: Arts & Culture

 
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"Philadelphia Teen Wins National Award for Poetry" by Leigh Anne Tiffany, NBC Philadelphia

 

“I am deliberate, and afraid of nothing”

— AUDRE LORDE

 
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