PUBLICATIONS & VIDEO | mayawilliamspoet

Find Maya's published poems, published essays, filmed talks, and filmed poems at the links below:

Poems

The Portland Press Herald (2023): "In the Beginning"
From Root to Seed: Black, Brown, and Indigenous Poets Write the Northeast (2023): "While Driving on I-295" and "The Path to Heaven is by Lifeboat"
The Coop (2022): "Last Night"
The Cortland Review (2022): "Miraculous"
Amjambo Africa! (2022): "Judas & Suicide" and "In the Lobby of The Opportunity Alliance, There are Three Large Plush Cars to Choose From for Clients' Children to Play with"
The Coop (2022): "Drafts for Every Obituary for a Death by Suicide"
Assignment Mag (2022): "Put Them in the Back," "When I Die," and "I Don't Know if This is Accurate, I Only Know We Won't be in a Single File Diagonal Line"
The Portland Press Herald (2022): "Something Needs to be Done"
Oxford Press (2022): Coming Soon!
The Night the Heron Barks (2021): "Effort Has to Rely on the Oldest"
The Indianapolis Review (2021): "You Mean to Tell Me Black People Didn't Inspire 'The Time Warp'?"
Maine Arts Journal (2021): " 'Commit' in Relation to Suicide"
Ran Off with the Star Bassoon (2021): "Lucknow, India 2017"
The Soul in Space Mag (2021): "Casting Call for ANTM Web Edition"
Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance/Portland Press Herald's Deep Water Column (2021): "On a Film Set Playing Mary Bowser"
Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts (2021): "Side Effects of Prayer," and "For Wanda Coleman's Wicked Enchantment"
FreezeRay (2020): "A Sestina for the Representation of Suicide in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
A Gathering Together (2020): "I Love it When Black People Ask, 'How You Livin'?'"
Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts (2020): "On Instagram" & "The Philippian Jailer, Suicide, and Hope"
Littoral Books Anthology Enough! Poems of Resistance and Protest: "To the Black and Brown Fems with Earbuds in their Ears" & "Why Incarceration is Not Working"
Interfaith America (2020): "Religious Imposters"
Terse Journal (2020): "Ladybugs"
Misery Tourism (2020): "An Erasure of a Job Opening at Long Creek Youth Development Center on Indeed"
Black Table Arts (2020): "An Ode to the Black Femmes' Group Chat"
Misery Tourism (2020): "Contracts"
A Gathering Together (2019): "To Be a Spiritual Dancing Fiend"
Bosque Press (2019): "The Worst to Ever Happen"
Frost Meadow Review Volume 3 (Featured Poems, 2019)
Frost Meadow Review Volume 2 (2019): "Internalizing in Two Parts" & "My Depression is..."
Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance/Portland Press Herald's Deep Water Column (2019): "Revel in Filth"
Homology Lit (Best of the Net Nominee 2019): "The Words We Wear"
Royal Rose Magazine (2019): "Staying Alive" & "Stumbling"
glitterMOB (2018): "Current Triggers"
Trill Project (2018): "Convince Us to Stay: a Poem"
Occulum (2018): "When Speaking to an Extraterrestrial"

Essays

Stylist (2023): "This is How I'm Learning to Live with Dermatillomania"
LGBTQ Nation (2023): "How Tattoos Helped Me Reclaim the Power of My Queer & Trans Body"
Full Stop (2023): The Kingdom of Surfaces - Sally Wen Mao
The Daily Beast (2022): "How Hollywood Can Better Protect Black Viewers' Mental Health"
Black Girl Nerds (2022): "We Need More Black Villains Like Allison Hargreeves of ‘Umbrella Academy’"
Matthew's Place (2022) "How Elliot Page’s Transition Honors Viktor Hargreeves’ Manhood While Also Honoring the Women in His Life in the Third Season of Umbrella Academy"
The Rumpus (2022): "Using Form to Transform: Come Clean by Joshua Nguyen"
Honey Literary (2022): "Breaking the Binary of “Softness”/”Hardness”: A Book Review of Franny Choi’s Soft Science”
Carefree (2020): "I'm a Black Suicide Survivor and Joy is My Act of Resistance"
Black Girl Nerds (2020): "How Do We Move Beyond the 'Strong Black Woman' Trope for Suicide in Film?"
Black Girl Nerds (2020): "Casting Black People as Cops Will Not Stop Black People from Dying"
Terse Journal (2020): "Book Review: 'Retelling of History Fused with Afrofuturism in Sasha Banks' america, MINE'"
Black Girl Nerds (2020): 'Birthright': an Invitation to "Read" Rather Than "read" about Autonomy over Erasure"
The Tempest (2020): "Ariana Brown's Poetry Powerfully Captures Life as a Queer Person of Color"
Metro UK (2020): "Mental Health Representation is Improving On Screen - But Where are Black Women?"
Matthew's Place (2020): "I Was Wrong About My LGBTQ+ Identity Not Correlating with My Suicidal Ideation"
Black Girl Nerds (2020): "The Representation of Incarcerated Black Women"
Black Youth Project (2020): "I Became a Sex and Consent Educator with Black Youth in Mind"
Rooted in Rights (2020): "Conversations that Black Communities Need to Be Having About Suicide"
Black Youth Project (2019): "Treatment for My Suicidal Ideation Has Not Been a Linear Journey"
Rooted in Rights (2020): "Coping with Suicidal Ideation Among the Uncertainty of COVID-19"
The Tempest (2018): "This Poetry Chapbook Embodies The Complexities of Non-binary Feminine Identity"
The Tempest (2018): "Mental Health is Still an Issue, Even After It's Stopped Trending"

Find Maya's published poems, published essays, filmed talks, and filmed poems at the links below:

Poems

The Portland Press Herald (2023): "In the Beginning"

From Root to Seed: Black, Brown, and Indigenous Poets Write the Northeast (2023): "While Driving on I-295" and "The Path to Heaven is by Lifeboat"

The Coop (2022): "Last Night"

The Cortland Review (2022): "Miraculous"

Amjambo Africa! (2022): "Judas & Suicide" and "In the Lobby of The Opportunity Alliance, There are Three Large Plush Cars to Choose From for Clients' Children to Play with"

The Coop (2022): "Drafts for Every Obituary for a Death by Suicide"

Assignment Mag (2022): "Put Them in the Back," "When I Die," and "I Don't Know if This is Accurate, I Only Know We Won't be in a Single File Diagonal Line"

The Portland Press Herald (2022): "Something Needs to be Done"

Oxford Press (2022): Coming Soon!

The Night the Heron Barks (2021): "Effort Has to Rely on the Oldest"

The Indianapolis Review (2021): "You Mean to Tell Me Black People Didn't Inspire 'The Time Warp'?"

Maine Arts Journal (2021): " 'Commit' in Relation to Suicide"

Ran Off with the Star Bassoon (2021): "Lucknow, India 2017"

The Soul in Space Mag (2021): "Casting Call for ANTM Web Edition"

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance/Portland Press Herald's Deep Water Column (2021): "On a Film Set Playing Mary Bowser"

Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts (2021): "Side Effects of Prayer," and "For Wanda Coleman's Wicked Enchantment"

FreezeRay (2020): "A Sestina for the Representation of Suicide in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"

A Gathering Together (2020): "I Love it When Black People Ask, 'How You Livin'?'"

Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts (2020): "On Instagram" & "The Philippian Jailer, Suicide, and Hope"

Littoral Books Anthology Enough! Poems of Resistance and Protest: "To the Black and Brown Fems with Earbuds in their Ears" & "Why Incarceration is Not Working"

Interfaith America (2020): "Religious Imposters"

Terse Journal (2020): "Ladybugs"

Misery Tourism (2020): "An Erasure of a Job Opening at Long Creek Youth Development Center on Indeed"

Black Table Arts (2020): "An Ode to the Black Femmes' Group Chat"

Misery Tourism (2020): "Contracts"

A Gathering Together (2019): "To Be a Spiritual Dancing Fiend"

Bosque Press (2019): "The Worst to Ever Happen"

Frost Meadow Review Volume 3 (Featured Poems, 2019)

Frost Meadow Review Volume 2 (2019): "Internalizing in Two Parts" & "My Depression is..."

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance/Portland Press Herald's Deep Water Column (2019): "Revel in Filth"

Homology Lit (Best of the Net Nominee 2019): "The Words We Wear"

Royal Rose Magazine (2019): "Staying Alive" & "Stumbling"

glitterMOB (2018): "Current Triggers"

Trill Project (2018): "Convince Us to Stay: a Poem"

Occulum (2018): "When Speaking to an Extraterrestrial"

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Essays​​

Stylist (2023): "This is How I'm Learning to Live with Dermatillomania"

LGBTQ Nation (2023): "How Tattoos Helped Me Reclaim the Power of My Queer & Trans Body"

Full Stop (2023): The Kingdom of Surfaces - Sally Wen Mao

The Daily Beast (2022): "How Hollywood Can Better Protect Black Viewers' Mental Health"

Black Girl Nerds (2022): "We Need More Black Villains Like Allison Hargreeves of ‘Umbrella Academy’"

Matthew's Place (2022) "How Elliot Page’s Transition Honors Viktor Hargreeves’ Manhood While Also Honoring the Women in His Life in the Third Season of Umbrella Academy"

The Rumpus (2022): "Using Form to Transform: Come Clean by Joshua Nguyen"

Honey Literary (2022): "Breaking the Binary of “Softness”/”Hardness”: A Book Review of Franny Choi’s Soft Science”

Carefree (2020): "I'm a Black Suicide Survivor and Joy is My Act of Resistance"

Black Girl Nerds (2020): "How Do We Move Beyond the 'Strong Black Woman' Trope for Suicide in Film?"

Black Girl Nerds (2020): "Casting Black People as Cops Will Not Stop Black People from Dying"

Terse Journal (2020): "Book Review: 'Retelling of History Fused with Afrofuturism in Sasha Banks' america, MINE'"

Black Girl Nerds (2020): 'Birthright': an Invitation to "Read" Rather Than "read" about Autonomy over Erasure"

The Tempest (2020): "Ariana Brown's Poetry Powerfully Captures Life as a Queer Person of Color"

Metro UK (2020): "Mental Health Representation is Improving On Screen - But Where are Black Women?"

Matthew's Place (2020): "I Was Wrong About My LGBTQ+ Identity Not Correlating with My Suicidal Ideation"

Black Girl Nerds (2020): "The Representation of Incarcerated Black Women"

Black Youth Project (2020): "I Became a Sex and Consent Educator with Black Youth in Mind"

Rooted in Rights (2020): "Conversations that Black Communities Need to Be Having About Suicide"

Rooted in Rights (2020): "Coping with Suicidal Ideation Among the Uncertainty of COVID-19"

The Tempest (2018): "This Poetry Chapbook Embodies The Complexities of Non-binary Feminine Identity"

The Tempest (2018): "Mental Health is Still an Issue, Even After It's Stopped Trending"

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