Cynthia Manick
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Cynthia Manick (born 1979) is an American poet, storyteller, and curator from Brooklyn, New York. She founded the reading series Soul Sister Revue and was awarded the Lascaux Prize in Collected Poetry for the collection Blue Hallelujahs.
Education and early life[edit]
Cynthia Manick received her B.A. from Hollins University and an MFA from the New School under teachers David Lehman and Prageeta Sharma. She is a fellow of Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop under Vievee Francis and Gregory Pardlo and a Cave Canem Foundation Graduate Fellow with workshops led by Nikkey Finney, Terrance Hayes, Chris Abani, and Patricia Smith.
Soul Sister Revue[edit]
Soul Sister Revue[1][2] was a quarterly reading series founded in 2013 for emerging and established poets who wrote in the narrative tradition of storytelling[3]. The series was also designed to celebrate Soul in all its forms.[4]
Past readers included Cornelius Eady, Samiya Bashir, Joshua Bennett, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Tommye Blount, Mahogany L. Browne, Tina Chang, Toi Derricotte, Natalie Diaz, Camonghne Felix, Airea D. Mathews, Ada Limon, Douglas Kearney, José Olivarez, Hettie Jones, Tyehimba Jess, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, John Murillo, Gregory Pardlo, Willie Perdomo, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, and Hanif Willis-Abdurraquib.
In 2019, an anthology Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation[5][6], was published.
Memberships and Awards[edit]
Cynthia Manick has received fellowships from Poets House[7][8], Cave Canem Foundation[9][10], Hedgebrook[11], MacDowell Colony[12], and Château de la Napoule.
Honorable Mention for the Furious Flower Poetry Prize in 2019.[13]
Frontier Poetry 3rd Place Winner for "Self-Portrait No. 5 (Phoenix and Lullabies)" in 2018[14].
Recipient, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for Poetry, 2017[15]
Lascaux Prize in Collected Poetry in 2016[16]
Works[edit]
Full-length poetry collections[edit]
No Sweet Without Brine (Amistad, 2023)[17][18][19]
Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016)[20][21][22]
Full-length poetry collections as Editor[edit]
The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry (Blair, 2021)[23][24][25]
Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation (Jamii Publishing, 2019)[26][27][28]
Adaptations[edit]
Poem "Things I Carry Into the World" a short film via Motionpoems, directed by Pat Heywood and Jamil McGinnis. It was featured in NOWNESS/ TIDAL / PBS - Thirteen / Blavity / Button Poetry / Designcollector / Film Shortage / Poets & Writers / Moving Poems
"A Particular Truth About Grown Folks Grits" used in VOICES[29], an audioplay and initiative out of V-Day and poet Aja Monet.
References[edit]
- ↑ MacAllen, Ian (2015-10-08). "Reading Series Census: Soul Sister Revue". englishkillsreview.com. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ Jama, Safia (2015-10-27). "An Evening with the Soul Sister Revue". englishkillsreview.com. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ "When Soul and Poetry Meet, A Revue Takes Place". 8 May 2017.
- ↑ "When Soul and Poetry Meet, A Revue Takes Place". Poets & Writers. 2017-05-08. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ "Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation by Cynthia Manick (editor)". North of Oxford. 2020-02-01. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ sundresspublications (2020-01-24). "The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation by Cynthia Manick". The Sundress Blog. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ "Emerging Poets Fellowship Recipients - Poets House". poetshouse.org. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ "On Name-Calling, Poetic Partners-in-Crime, and the Blues". Literary Hub. 2016-08-09. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ "Cave Canem » Blog Archive » Poet of the Week: Cynthia Manick". Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ "Cave Canem » Fellows". Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ "Cynthia Manick". Hedgebrook.org. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ "Cynthia Manick - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ "In Conversation with the Furious Flower 2019 Poetry Prize Winners". www.jmu.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ Manick, Cynthia (2018-12-26). "Award for New Poets, 3rd Place Winner: Self-Portrait No. 5 by Cynthia Manick | Frontier Poetry - Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry". Frontier Poetry. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ "Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc. : Grantees". demingfund.org. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
- ↑ https://www.pressreader.com/usa/poets-and-writers/20180101/282677572611784. Retrieved 2023-05-29 – via PressReader. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Risley, Chelsea (2023-04-19). "The Best Southern Books of April 2023". Southern Review of Books. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ Dumond, Susie (2023-04-03). "April 2023 Horoscopes and Book Recommendations". BOOK RIOT. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ Schlichenmeyer, Terri (2023-04-02). "And they don't even have to rhyme! – Caribbean Life". www.caribbeanlife.com. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ "December Micro-Reviews". The Kenyon Review. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ "A review of Blue Hallelujahs by Cynthia Manick – Compulsive Reader". 2016-12-27. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ Poetry, Today's Book Of (2017-02-17). "Today's Book of Poetry: Blue Hallelujahs - Cynthia Manick (Black Lawrence Press)". Today's Book of Poetry. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ Jamison, David Michael (2022-01-22). "The Future Is Black, Not Bleak". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ "The Future of Black edited by Gary Jackson, Len Lawson and Cynthia Manick". North of Oxford. 2022-02-01. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ Gooden, Kelsey (2022-04-25). "li Voices - The Future of Black with Gary Jackson, Len Lawson and Cynthia Manick". Little Infinite. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ Poets, Academy of American. "Books for Spring–Summer 2020 | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ Oxford, North of (2020-02-01). "Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation by Cynthia Manick (editor)". North of Oxford. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ "The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation by Cynthia Manick". The Sundress Blog. 2020-01-23. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ↑ "VOICES Audioplay to Launch in Accra, Ghana on December 18th - V-Day". 16 November 2022.
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