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  1. Woods is a member of Dark Noise, a collective of poets & educators of color. She is also the frontwoman of the Chicago-based soul duo M&O, whose music has been featured in SPIN, OkayPlayer, JET, and Ebony. In 2015, she was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Woods lives in Chicago ...

  2. on naming yourself (a cento) This cento is composed of text from 11 poems by the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winners. Source poems include: Download a color-coded PDF showing the source authors here. Jamila Woods, "on naming yourself (a cento)" from the program for the 2022 Pegasus Awards, celebrating the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winners: Rita ...

  3. Published works. on naming yourself, a cento (2022) - Poetry Magazine Day 29 (2020) - Poets.org blk girl art (2016) - The Offing Ode to Herb Kent (2015) - Poetry Magazine beverly, huh (2015) - Poetry Magazine

  4. Ode to Herb Kent. By Jamila Woods. Your voice crawls across the dashboard of Grandma’s Dodge Dynasty on the way home from Lilydale First Baptist. You sing a cocktail of static and bass. Sound like you dressed to the nines: cowboy hat, fur coat & alligator boots. Sound like you lotion every tooth.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jamila_WoodsJamila Woods - Wikipedia

    www .jamila-woods .com. Jamila Woods (born October 8, 1989) is a Chicago -based American singer, songwriter and poet. Woods is a graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep and Brown University, where she received a BA in Africana Studies and Theater & Performance Studies. [1] [2] [3] Her work focuses on themes of Black ancestry, Black feminism, and ...

  6. Day 29 (2020) Load audio player. Jamila Woods. after Nazim Hikmet. it’s April 13th 2020, my mother’s 60th birthday. and i’m sitting on the couch from my old apartment. in my new apartment, and Pidgeon’s wind chimes are loud. outside my window. i never knew i liked wind chimes.

  7. beverly, huh. Poet, singer, and teaching artist Jamila Woods has been called “a modern-day Renaissance woman” by the Chicago Sun-Times. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her poetry has been published by MUZZLE, Third World Press, and Poetry. She is the associate artistic director of Young Chicago Authors and a founding member of its Teaching Artist ...

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