* A new review of the book posted at THE VOLTA and at the Poetry Foundation
* Interview with Cathy Byrd, art writer and curator, on Black Peculiar, race, gender and the everyday creative process
* Dean Rader of SF Gate calls it "Lexically and historically fascinating. And funny."
* On two No Tells Best of 2011 lists: Evie Shockley and Daniela Olszewska
* A poem from Black Peculiar won a 2011 Best of the Net Award

Black Peculiar is now available! Order from Noemi Press, SPD, Amazon, or snag a signed copy here.

* Six poems will appear in Mandorla's 2012 issue.
* My poem "Spells" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Tuesday; An Art Project. The poem appears in their fall 2011 issue.
* A new poem from a manuscript-in-progress is up at the Academy of American Poets' website, as part of their Poem-A-Day series.
* The title poem from Black Peculiar appears in jubilat's May 2011 issue.
* My review of Emma Trelles' Montoya Prize-winning collection TROPICALIA is up at Post No Ills.
* Three poems appear in the current issue of Eleven Eleven.

Cornelia Street Cafe
May 15, 2012
29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY 10014
$7 admission includes one drink
With Tara Betts, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Jee Leong Koh, R. A. Villanueva, Evie Shockley, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Stacey Lynn Brown & more.
Check out the anthology: A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry

Beyond Baroque
December 8, 2011
681 Venice Blvd
Venice, CA
9 pm, $7 admission/$5 students/seniors
With Natalie Diaz and Ashaki M. Jackson. Hosted by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo.

Enoch Pratt Library
December 4, 2011
400 Cathedral St
Baltimore, MD
2 pm, free
With Derrick Weston Brown, Iain Haley Pollock and Evie Shockley. Hosted by Reginald Harris.

Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center
September 28, 2011
172 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002
7pm, Free
With Hanna Andrews, Diana Marie Delgado and musician NaJah Lewis

HOT TEXTS, a Belladonna* reading series
September 27, 2011
The Way Station, 683 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
8pm, Free
With Julian T. Brolanski

Cave Canem Fellows Read
September 1, 2011
6pm, Free
The New School
Wollman Hall
65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th)
New York, NY

Eighth Annual Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival
April 15-17, 2011
1 Mead Way
Bronxville, NY
Heimbold Auditorium

Courting Risk: A Cross-Genre Reading
AWP Conference
February 4, 2011
Washington, D.C.
With Samiya Bashir, Natalie Diaz, ariel robello and L. Lamar Wilson.

Literary Death Match
Thursday, September 16, 2010, 8pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, NYC
$10 at the door

Broadsides Reading Series
Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 6:30pm
Khadijah Queen and Sarah Gambito. Organized by Evie Shockley.
Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
$10 suggestion donation/ $5 CBA members

Conduit was featured in the January/February 2009 Poets & Writers magazine article "Twelve Debut Poets."

Khadijah's work in Powder was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Courting Risk IV
Friday, April 9, 2010, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Forza Coffee Company, 3013 W 104th Ave, Westminster, CO 80031
Multicultural, multi-genre reading series with focus on work by women and LGBT writers. Featuring ariel robello, Layli Longsoldier, Anastacia Tolbert, Naomi Benaron, francine j. harris, Natalie Diaz and others.


Courting Risk III
Macaulay Honors College, New York, NY
November 5, 2009
(Invitation only)

Poetry @ Tech
October 23, 2009
7:00 - 8:30 pm
Academy of Medicine
Georgia Institute of Technology
875 W Peachtree St, NW
Atlanta, GA
With David Baker. RSVP on Facebook