She teaches in the lowresidency milehigh mfa program at regis university and is a visiting professor in creative writing at university of colorado boulder. In 2014, she won the leslie scalapino award for innovative women performance writers for her verse play nonsequitur, staged in nyc in december 2015 and published by litmus press. Fearful beloved argos books, 2015, a hybrid collection framed by a letter to fear written during artist ann hamiltons park avenue armory installation the. Dec 01, 2011 khadijah queen is the author of conduit black goat akashic books, 2008, black peculiar noemi press, 2011, which won the noemi book award for poetry and was a finalist for the gatewood prize at switchback books. Post to facebook poemaday the rule of opulence by khadijah queen khadijah queen s most recent book is fearful. Queen gives her fear inestimable flesh and her poetry insists, as readers and bodies, that we must not look away from our own spines and mirrors. Her verse play nonsequitur litmus press 2015 won the leslie scalapino award for innovative womens performance. Khadijah queen earlier poetry collections include conduit akashic black goat 2008, black peculiar noemi press 2011 and fearful beloved argos books 2015.
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