SHAKEEMA SMALLS
Poet
ABOUT ME
My work has been published in a variety of outlets including Blackberry: A Magazine, Tidal Basin Review, Honey Literary, voicemail poems, Rootwork Journal, Radius Lit, Free Black Space, Vinyl Poetry and Prose, Rigorous, Emergent Literary, Hayden's Ferry Review, and A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine, among others. I was a Tin House 2022 Winter Workshop participant and a 2022 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow.
Selected Writing
“calcium,” Vinyl Poetry & Prose, 2017
“ I Asked My Mother What Will I Be,” and “Cornelia Street,” published in Rootwork Journal, ‘Summoning Flight’ Issue, July 2022
“Morning Conjure 1” and “Evening Conjure 3,” published in A Gathering of Tribes, Summer 2022 issue
“Tymbal,” published in voicemail poems, Summer 2022
“Petition,” published in Honey Literary Journal, Summer 2022
"Kitchen Conjure," published in Hayden's Ferry Review, Fall/Winter 2022
"Tarrying," "Kindling," and "Dying Planets," published in Emergent Literary, Issue 3. 2023.