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Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum is a poet, performance artist, and public historian. She serves as Co-Director of the Providence Poetry Slam, housed at AS220 in downtown Providence since 1992. She has received fellowships from Poetry Foundation, Rhode Island Foundation, Kundiman, and Lambda Literary, which named her LGBTQ Writers in Schools’ inaugural Poet-in-Residence for the LGBTQ+ Youth Poet Laureate Residency. She broke ground as a finalist in the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam, and her teams were champions of the Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam and the first-ever FEM Slam. With Justice Ameer, she wrote and staged the two-woman show ANTHEM at the American Repertory Theater’s OBERON. Her work appears in Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets, The Nation, The Rumpus, Them, Button Poetry, among others.

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Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum is a poet, performance artist, and public historian. She serves as Co-Director of the Providence Poetry Slam, housed at AS220 in downtown Providence since 1992. She has received fellowships from Poetry Foundation, Rhode Island Foundation, Kundiman, and Lambda Literary, which named her LGBTQ Writers in Schools’ inaugural Poet-in-Residence for the LGBTQ+ Youth Poet Laureate Residency. She broke ground as a finalist in the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam, and her teams were champions of the Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam and the first-ever FEM Slam. With Justice Ameer, she wrote and staged the two-woman show ANTHEM at the American Repertory Theater’s OBERON. Her work appears in Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets, The Nation, The Rumpus, Them, Button Poetry, among others.

+ Chrysanthemum’s website

Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum is a poet, performance artist, and public historian. She serves as Co-Director of the Providence Poetry Slam, housed at AS220 in downtown Providence since 1992. She has received fellowships from Poetry Foundation, Rhode Island Foundation, Kundiman, and Lambda Literary, which named her LGBTQ Writers in Schools’ inaugural Poet-in-Residence for the LGBTQ+ Youth Poet Laureate Residency. She broke ground as a finalist in the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam, and her teams were champions of the Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam and the first-ever FEM Slam. With Justice Ameer, she wrote and staged the two-woman show ANTHEM at the American Repertory Theater’s OBERON. Her work appears in Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets, The Nation, The Rumpus, Them, Button Poetry, among others.

+ Chrysanthemum’s website