Cynthia Manick

Poet| Storyteller| Curator

Cynthia Manick - Poet and Storyteller

Author of No Sweet Without Brine, Editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry, and Author of Blue Hallelujahs; Curator of Soul Sister Revue

Online Poems

Praise Poem for VapoRub Half-Emptied” and “When Some Poets Go Over Their Reading Time on Stage” Jet Fuel Review

“Shapes of Grief: A Haibun” Soren Lit

Sertraline: A Prescription Zuihitsu” The Rumpus

“Instructions: How to Find Joy When LostThe Brooklyn Rail

“Eintou for Possibility” Sunday Reads Newsletter

“I Want to See Black Love on Television”(reprint) Underbelly Mag

“A Taste of Blue” (reprint) The Pioneer Woman

“How You Livin” Zocalo Public Square

Autopsy of the Poetic I” and “Litany for My Fears and QuestionsWordpeace

Girls Like Me Are Made Of . . . Lucy Writers

There Are No Unsacred SpacesMass Poetry Hard Work of Hope Campaign

When I Tell Our Story of Bees and Vinegar” and “Imagine a Camel and its CalfSink Review

Is This Your Sky or Mine?Catapult

“There Are No Unsacred SpacesAGNI

“One Vow After the Other” The Baffler

“Self-Portrait No. 11 (Climatology in Flux)” Bear Review

“Self-Portrait No. 5 (Phoenix and Lullabies)” Frontier Poetry

Essay "Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body" and poem "What’s Passed Down In The Making"  Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)

"Urban Tumbleweed" Wildness

"Things I Will Tell My Children About Destiny" Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series

"Notes Toward a Poem on Self-Care . . ." and "#45 Vibrations"  Foundry 

"I Could Be A Boxer" Hyperallergic

"A Taste of Blue" Academy of American Poets

"The Reaper in Me" Poem of the Moment Mass Poetry

"Why I Deliver Beasts aka Write Poetry" Easy Street: A Magazine of Books and Culture

"Ode to a Sway" Wall Street  Journal

"When You Learn to Be a Lady" Poets House

"I Try To Imagine Them Smitten" and "Letter to 1991" Box of Jars

“A White Co-worker Asks If My Family Sits Down to Have Frank Discussions about Race” Callaloo

“What I Know About Blues” and “The Museum” African-American Review

“I See a Dirt Road Inside Myself” Pedestal Magazine 

Pitkin Avenue and Stone”  Up the Staircase Quarterly

“Passing”  Muzzle Magazine     

“Revolution Staccato in B“ Callaloo              

“Tapping at Mama’s Knees”  JDB Records for National Poetry Month

”Ethel September”  Dead Mule School for Southern Literature