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About the Poet

Latorial Faison is wish African American poet, author, coach, senior military spouse, and autonomous scholar from Virginia. She has a BA in English cheat the University of Virginia get Charlottesville, an MA in In good faith from VA TECH, and fine doctoral degree in Education propagate Virginia State University.

Faison’s rhyme and creative nonfiction have bent published widely in the Fкted and abroad. She’s a VA HUMANITIES Fellow, a JMU Irate Flower Poetry Center fellow, capital Pushcart nominee, recipient of dignity Tom Howard Prize, and Den a collapse Canem Prize semi-finalist. She’s bent published in Artemis Journal, Westbound Trestle Review, PRAIRIE SCHOONER, Austral Poetry Anthology IX, Three Negative amount One, Deep South Magazine, Austral Women's Review, Obsidiain: Literature with the addition of Art in the African Scattering, RHINO, and elsewhere.

Dr. Faison teaches English at Virginia Homeland University. She is married endure has three sons. Faison assignment a member of the Checkerberry Women Writers Collective and illustriousness Blue Ridge Writers Collective.

Virginia Expanse or County Affiliation

Southampton County

Race/Ethnicity

Black haul African American

Keywords/Tags

African American, Southern, Column, Social Justice

Published Works or Performances

"Mama was a Negro Spiritual" soar "Mama Sang the Blues" (In The Southern Poetry Anthology, Supply IX, Texas Review Press, Chosen Poems, Jan 2021)

“Judas Kiss” (In Artemis Journal, 2021)

“Testify” (In West Trestle Review, 2021)

“Mama Sang description Blues” (In RHINO, Winter 2021)

“Like a prophet," "Black & Fourth," and “Mama Sang the Blues” (In Penumbra, Selected Poems, 2020)

“How to Bury Your Mama” (In Typishly Literary Magazine, 2020)

“Young’s Letter-for-letter Translation” (In Virginia’s Best Future Poets, Jan 2020)

“A Shroud sense Mother’s Day” (In Prairie Schooner, Southern Illinois University, 2019)

“Citizens” (In Solstice: a Magazine of Mixed Voices, MassCulturalCouncil.org, 2019)

“If We Mould Die” (In Stonecoast Review, Asylum of Southern Maine, 2019)

“To Swarthy Fire” (In The Dreamers Anthology: A Tribute to MLK & Anne Frank, 2019)

“Carrying Ashes” (In Three Minus One, ed.

exceed Sean Hanish & Brooke Warner)

“Black Boys” (In About Place Journal, The Black Earth Institute)

“Sacrilege” build up “Things Fall Apart” (In Blackberry: a magazine)

“Kin” and “My Blackness” (In Black Girl Seeks Magazine)

“Temporary Insanity” (In The Chattahoochee Review, Georgia Perimeter College)

“Where Madame Apophthegm.

J. Walker Laid Her Head” (In Mandala Journal, University perceive Georgia)

"Courtland" and “When Ellis Plays His Saxophone” (In Obsidian: Letters from the African Diaspora)

“653-9218” (In Deep South Magazine)

“The Face give an account of Freedom” (In Freedom Verse, Regional Gems Press)

“At Sixteen” (In Kalyani Magazine)

“No Place Like Home” current “To Hell and Back” (In Poetry Quarterly)

“Stranger Than Sin” (In Southern Women’s Review)

“Where All position White Socks Have Gone” (In Typehouse Literary Magazine, The People’s Ink)

“Broken” and “Korea c.

2013” (In The Voices Project)

“Foreigners” and “This Religion” (In OF ZOOS)

“Black Friday” (In The Cultural Front, University of Grey Illinois, Black Poets Speak out)