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Episode 82: Faylita Hicks

Wednesday, October 19, 2022
00:03:11
Episode Summary

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads "The Battered Woman’s Prayer for Power" by Faylita Hicks from her collection HoodWitch.


Participant(s) Bio

Faylita Hicks (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latinx activist, writer, and interdisciplinary artist. Born in South Central California and raised in Central Texas, they use their intersectional experiences to advocate for the rights of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ people by interpreting policy’s impact on the individual using poetry, music, performance, and digital art.

They are the author of HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry, and the forthcoming poetry collection and debut memoir A Map of My Want (Haymarket Books, 2024), and A Body of Wild Light (Haymarket Books, 2025).

Source: FaylitaHicks.com


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