“Dissolve”The Offing

“The Spook Who Poemed by Her Altar and Not at the Feet of Academia”Torch Literary Arts

“afro/latin/a” — Winning Writers

"Mama & the Clothesline / Tuckahoe 2001"Philadelphia Stories

“poem for my people”Moko Magazine: caribbean arts and letters

“greens”Philadelphia Stories

selected poems.

WINNER

OF THE BUTTON POETRY

CHAPBOOK CONTEST

fellowships + honors.

2024 Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry — The Adroit Journal

2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Finalist

2023 Nancy Craig Blackburn ‘71 Fellow

2022 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow

2022 Poetry Fellow — The Hurston/Wright Foundation

2022 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest — Winner

2022 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize, Runner Up — Prism International

2022 Philadelphia Stories Sandy Crimmins Poetry Prize – Winner

2022 Great River Review Pink Poetry Prize – Finalist

2022 Poetry Contest, FinalistSnarl Journal

2022 Langston Hughes Fellow — Palm Beach Poetry Festival

2021 Winning Writers’ Margaret Reid Poetry Prize – Winner

2021 Pink Poetry Prize, Finalist — Great River Review

2021 Poetry Prize, Finalist — Puerto del Sol

2021 Previously Published Poem Prize, LonglistPalette Poetry

2021 Fall Poetry Fellow — Brooklyn Poets

2020 Poetry Fellow — The Watering Hole

press.

services.

  • Edythe has taught poetry with Temple University, Blue Stoop, Barrelhouse Mag, Tiny Spoon and other literary orgs

  • Edythe is now accepting bookings for her chapbook tour and has featured at Dodge Poetry Festival, Pecola Breedlove and the Freedom Party, and other stages in Philadelphia.

  • Edythe has served as a Poetry Editor for Heritage Journal and Voicemail Poems and as a reader for Palette Poetry, Cleaver Magazine, Mighty Writers and elsewhere.