“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, Finalist — Snarl 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, Longlist — Palette Poetry
2021 Fall Poetry Fellow — Brooklyn Poets
2020 Poetry Fellow — The Watering Hole
press.
services.
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Edythe has taught poetry with Temple University, Blue Stoop, Barrelhouse Mag, Tiny Spoon and other literary orgs
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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.
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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.