Poetry exists in many forms
Jacqueline and Jason’s Block Party! with Jacqueline Woodson, Jason Moran
Poetry Readings
Award-winning poet María Fernanda performs across the United States. Her practice experiments with genealogy charts (inspired by poet Sarah Ghazal Ali) and etymology charts based on her independent research at Planet Word. Each chart placeholder for a name or word is replaced by lyric. In person, she presents her pieces on broadsides.
A New Language: Broadside Workshop at DC Public Library at Mount Pleasant Library location
Literary Facilitation
Award-winning poet María Fernanda leads literary workshops in the form of collective literary experiences. She conceives and develops each with the intention of supporting writers in their literary career. Participants create new work within her personalized framework, as well as ignite unique ways to begin writing.
Park Avenue Armory’s Making Space season
Programming & Collaboration
Award-winning poet María Fernanda specializes as a creative producer for the performing arts. She produces venue-wide live productions (3k+ attendees), commissions new work, develops residencies for both individuals and groups (70+), and possesses extensive artist contract management experience.
María Fernanda performs her original poetry across the world. Poetry is her way of sharing her own rich literary upbringing. She kindles beloved traditions of care through a literary means with her community and inspires participants to ignite new ones. Her work has received multiple awards and she holds several literary appointments. She enjoys crafting programs and special events. All Bookings.
Appearances-
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Hamburg's NDR Kulture — Das Journal
German Public Radio, 2025
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
The U.S. National Mall, 2025
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Mama Sranan (Two Events)
U.S. Premiere at Margaret Mead Film Festival in NY, 2024
U.S. Embassy of Suriname for DC Premiere, 2024
Featured PerformanceHosted Sasa Aakil, If All the Trees Were Pens is a multimedia open mic with a mission to create a collaborative space where young people can share their work and be inspired by one another. A platform to share art in different forms and make friends and connections. In July, award-winning poet María Fernanda will feature.
Friday, July 11, 2025
6:00pm - 8:00pm
If All The Trees Were Pens Open Mic
Programs
Join Black poets and gardeners as they discuss their creative and historic connections to the gardens in our communities.
In 2024, featured discussions centered on the Trinidad, Anacostia, and Mount Pleasant neighborhoods. In 2025, the series launched in Georgetown Heights in collaboration with the DC Preservation League.
a poetry garden series
honoring nikki series
This initiative finds its shape in the form of workshops, lectures, and readings honoring Nikki Giovanni’s presence in DC. Readings include curated artist and open mic readers/performers to widen the lens in which we remember.
The Hour series
Sign up on-site to share your work aloud at Politics and Prose’s newest free open mic series, created and hosted by María Fernanda! She believes that Poetry, like us, exists in many forms—spoken word, blues, performance/theatre, hip-hop, and more. Bring poems, songs, raps, monologues, positive affirmations and more!
These one-hour collective experiences explore various poetic forms and supports writers with their revision practice beyond the wide-recognized workshop style.
Let’s Write Poetry Saturdays
Let’s Connect!
Collaborationsselected
2025
National Museum of African American —-of History and Culture
Black Girls in Arts Spaces x Black Girls Writers Room at National Museum of Women in the Arts
Brookings Institution
2024
American Poetry Museum
American Museum of Natural History
The Writer’s Center
2023
George Washington University
Virginia G. Piper Studio Center
Simon & Schuster
About
Services
Performances
Experience Design
Guest speaker/Moderator/Host
Locations
Washington
New York
Los Angeles
Clients
Museums
Performing Arts Center
National Initiatives
Recogniiton
Hurston/Wright Foundation
Best of the Net
Breakbeat Poets