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SELECTED ESSAYS & CRITICISM
“The What & How of the Visual Frame” | The Adroit Journal
“Niki Herd on ‘Lyric Sung in Third Person’” | Poetry Daily
“North American Documentary Poetry and Poetics” | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
“George Floyd and the White Gaze” | Salon
“What to Read When You’re Crip & Unafraid” | The Rumpus
SELECTED POEMS
“Clap for a nigga with his rapping ass” | Action, Spectacle
“Aubade for the Late Great Show” [audio] | New England Review
“Objects of Care, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago, 2018” | Copper Nickel
“Bird” | Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
“Birth of a Nation” | Tupelo Quarterly
“All Their Lines Look Alike” | The Rumpus
SELECTED ANTHOLOGIES
“Blue Magic” | The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic, Haymarket Books
“In the Company of Women,” “Girl Meets Girl” | The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, UGA Press
Events.
Antioch University Los Angeles Alumni Reading, December 11, 2024
Charis Books Reading w/ Victoria Chang, Virtual, December 5, 2024
Wild Indigo Poetry Reading Series w/ M. Nzadi Keita, Philadelphia, November 17, 2024
Philadelphia Alumni Writers House Reading w/ Greg Kaliss, Lancaster, November 7, 2024
Basket Books Reading w/ Kevin Prufer, Houston, October 15, 2024
“To Be Black and Conscious in America…” Dodge Poetry Festival, October 19, 2024
“When the Personal is Political,” Dodge Poetry Festival, October 18, 2024
“Griots, Troubadours, and MCs: Poetry and the Oral Tradition,” Dodge Poetry Festival, October 18, 2024
Saint Louis Poetry Center w/ Travis Mossotti, September 23, 2024
“Black History in Poetry and the Visual Archive,” Furious Flower Conference, Harrisonburg, VA, September 2024
“Poets for the People: Opening Reading,” Black Archives of Mid-America, Kansas City, February 2024
“Black History in Poetry and the Visual Archive,” AWP, Kansas City, February 2024
The Unsung Masters Reading, AWP, Kansas City, February 2024
Maryville University, St. Louis, March 2023
Copper Canyon 50th Anniversary Reading, Elliot Bay Books, Seattle, March 2023
University of Delaware, Delaware, May 2022
Words Together Worlds Reading, Virtual, August 2021
White Whale Bookstore Laser-Cat Reading, Virtual, April 2021
“Unsung Masters & Music & Literature on Recovery Projects,” Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, October 2019
Performance w/Nameless Sound, Alabama Song, Houston, May 2019
Writers in the Schools Reading w/Literary Arts, Portland, March 2019
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholar’s Reading, Middlebury, August 2018
Poetry Out Loud, Washington, D.C., April 2018
The Jung Center Reading, Houston, April 2018
“A WITS Alumni Reading,” AWP, Tampa, March 2019
Valleyspeak Book Launch Brazos Bookstore, Houston, January 2018
Carlow University Reading, Pittsburgh, January 2018
Gulf Coast Reading Series, Houston, April 2017
“Sexual Violence and the Poem as a Formal Body,” AWP, DC, 2017
Press.
The Stuff of Hollywood Interview, Poetry For All Podcast
Praise for The Stuff of Hollywood, Booklist STARRED REVIEW
“I thought my way through the puzzle of the poem: A Conversation with Niki Herd,” Catapult
“What Our Contributors Are Reading This Fall,” The Paris Review
“Activism, Poetry, and Crip Linguistics,” Pleiades Press
Wordgathering Interview with Meg Day
“Niki Herd Reads Layli Long Soldier,” Sundress Publications
“An Introduction to Niki Herd by Henk Rossouw,” Tupelo Quarterly