Candace G. Wiley

Candace G. Wiley

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Words & Verses

Photo Credit: Unknown
Bowie State University's marching band, Symphony of Soul

Symphony of Soul

the funk is percussive that Loud smell it

through the phone stain teeth brown

Photo Credit: Candace Wiley
Grandma Janie's mason jars. They cover three walls in the smoke house.

Answers for the Hard Questions

‘Cause he knew ninety-five would be his last year / ‘Cause ghosts live in his backyard

Photo Credit: Anna K. Stone
The Watering Hole 2014 Winter Retreat
Nikky Finney, Monifa Lemons...

Breaking Ground as Poets of Color

In December, a white woman entered our poet-of-color space. The year before too... Nothing is neutral and ahistorical.

Current Book Project

Many thanks to the Tulsa Artist Fellowship for providing the space to work on this project and the platform to present the idea.

Sincerest gratitude to Fine Arts Work Center for giving me the time and space to discover and blueprint this project.

Poetry

“Afro Atlantan Merfolk” and “We Mutants.” New Sound. Forthcoming.
"Symphony of Soul," "Igbo Landing: Hunger & Music," and "Igbo Landing: Wedge." Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry. Forthcoming.
“Parcel Map for the County Assessor” and “The Cut Up.” Black Girl Magic Anthology. April 2018.
“Answers for the Hard Questions” and “How to Lift Him.” Texas Review. Fall 2017.
“Breaking Ground as Poets of Color.” Free Black Space. January 2016.
“Igbo Landing” and “Prayer for the Dead.” Chaparral Poetry Journal. October 2016.
“Qa’pla.” Yemassee. Fall 2016.
“Keri Goes to L.A.” Illuminations Magazine. June 2016.
“How to Mutate” and “Lost Boys.” Jasper. January 2016.
“Amulet.” African American Review. Winter 2015.
“Dear Black Barbie.” Best American Poetry, 2015.
“Post-Racial.” Free Black Space. April 2015.
“Dear Black Barbie.” Prairie Schooner, Spring 2014, Vol. 88, No. 1.
“Heirlooms.” Pluck, Fall 2012, No. 8.
“Three-Flag State,” “Michael 1992.” Jasper. August 2012.
“White Girl,” “Grandmother Clock,” “Single Mother’s Song.” Home is Where: an anthology of African American poets from the Carolinas. Oct. 2011.

Interviews

Silberblatt, Neil. “022618 Poet Corner Candace Wiley.” WOMR Podcasts. February 2018.
Woods, Ann. “Candace Wiley brings People of Color Back to the Future.” The Provincetown Banner. February 2018.
“In the Spotlight.” Association of Writers and Writing Programs. January 2018.
Jones, I.S. “A Telling Erasure.” Chaparral Poetry Journal. October 2016.
Bates, Margaret. “Sitting Down with the Women of The Watering Hole.” Legendary Women. Oct. 2015.
Madden, Ed. “Jasper’s Artist to Watch.” Jasper. August 2012.

Fellowships

Lighthouse Works Center Fellow, Session 33, 2018
Vermont Studio Center Fellow, Sept. 2018
Fine Arts Work Center Fellow, 2017-2018
Callaloo Fellow, Providence 2013
Fulbright Fellowship to Colombia, 2012-2013
James Dickey Fellowship, 2009-2012