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Maya Williams
Find Maya's published poems, published essays, filmed talks, and filmed poems at the links below:
Poems
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Touchstone (2024): "My Therapist Reminds Me Again How My Parents’ Divorce Plays a Role in My Trauma"
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The Portland Press Herald (2023): "In the Beginning"
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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"
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The Coop (2022): "Last Night"
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The Cortland Review (2022): "Miraculous"
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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"
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The Coop (2022): "Drafts for Every Obituary for a Death by Suicide"
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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"
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The Portland Press Herald (2022): "Something Needs to be Done"
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Oxford Press (2022): Coming Soon!
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The Night the Heron Barks (2021): "Effort Has to Rely on the Oldest"
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The Indianapolis Review (2021): "You Mean to Tell Me Black People Didn't Inspire 'The Time Warp'?"
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Maine Arts Journal (2021): " 'Commit' in Relation to Suicide"
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Ran Off with the Star Bassoon (2021): "Lucknow, India 2017"
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The Soul in Space Mag (2021): "Casting Call for ANTM Web Edition"
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Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance/Portland Press Herald's Deep Water Column (2021): "On a Film Set Playing Mary Bowser"
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Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts (2021): "Side Effects of Prayer," and "For Wanda Coleman's Wicked Enchantment"
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FreezeRay (2020): "A Sestina for the Representation of Suicide in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
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A Gathering Together (2020): "I Love it When Black People Ask, 'How You Livin'?'"
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Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts (2020): "On Instagram" & "The Philippian Jailer, Suicide, and Hope"
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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"
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Interfaith America (2020): "Religious Imposters"
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Terse Journal (2020): "Ladybugs"
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Misery Tourism (2020): "An Erasure of a Job Opening at Long Creek Youth Development Center on Indeed"
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Black Table Arts (2020): "An Ode to the Black Femmes' Group Chat"
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Misery Tourism (2020): "Contracts"
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A Gathering Together (2019): "To Be a Spiritual Dancing Fiend"
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Bosque Press (2019): "The Worst to Ever Happen"
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Frost Meadow Review Volume 3 (Featured Poems, 2019)
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Frost Meadow Review Volume 2 (2019): "Internalizing in Two Parts" & "My Depression is..."
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Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance/Portland Press Herald's Deep Water Column (2019): "Revel in Filth"
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Homology Lit (Best of the Net Nominee 2019): "The Words We Wear"
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Royal Rose Magazine (2019): "Staying Alive" & "Stumbling"
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glitterMOB (2018): "Current Triggers"
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Trill Project (2018): "Convince Us to Stay: a Poem"
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Occulum (2018): "When Speaking to an Extraterrestrial"
Essays
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Stylist (2023): "This is How I'm Learning to Live with Dermatillomania"
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LGBTQ Nation (2023): "How Tattoos Helped Me Reclaim the Power of My Queer & Trans Body"
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Full Stop (2023): The Kingdom of Surfaces - Sally Wen Mao
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The Daily Beast (2022): "How Hollywood Can Better Protect Black Viewers' Mental Health"
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Black Girl Nerds (2022): "We Need More Black Villains Like Allison Hargreeves of ‘Umbrella Academy’"
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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"
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The Rumpus (2022): "Using Form to Transform: Come Clean by Joshua Nguyen"
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Honey Literary (2022): "Breaking the Binary of “Softness”/”Hardness”: A Book Review of Franny Choi’s Soft Science”
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Carefree (2020): "I'm a Black Suicide Survivor and Joy is My Act of Resistance"
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Black Girl Nerds (2020): "How Do We Move Beyond the 'Strong Black Woman' Trope for Suicide in Film?"
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Black Girl Nerds (2020): "Casting Black People as Cops Will Not Stop Black People from Dying"
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Terse Journal (2020): "Book Review: 'Retelling of History Fused with Afrofuturism in Sasha Banks' america, MINE'"
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Black Girl Nerds (2020): 'Birthright': an Invitation to "Read" Rather Than "read" about Autonomy over Erasure"
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The Tempest (2020): "Ariana Brown's Poetry Powerfully Captures Life as a Queer Person of Color"
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Metro UK (2020): "Mental Health Representation is Improving On Screen - But Where are Black Women?"
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Matthew's Place (2020): "I Was Wrong About My LGBTQ+ Identity Not Correlating with My Suicidal Ideation"
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Black Girl Nerds (2020): "The Representation of Incarcerated Black Women"
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Black Youth Project (2020): "I Became a Sex and Consent Educator with Black Youth in Mind"
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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"
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Rooted in Rights (2020): "Coping with Suicidal Ideation Among the Uncertainty of COVID-19"
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The Tempest (2018): "This Poetry Chapbook Embodies The Complexities of Non-binary Feminine Identity"
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The Tempest (2018): "Mental Health is Still an Issue, Even After It's Stopped Trending"
Videos
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