poetryMy work orbits grief. My work orbits sisterhood. My work orbits intergenerational coexistence. In this three-star system, each star moves in revolution with another. It wonders, How do we love at a distance? How does traveling within and across this distance become intimacy?
To experience her latest visual poetic work based on etymology and genealogy charts, visit one of her upcoming events here.
Hill Rag Magazine, 2024
Healing Verse Poetry Line, 2023
The Rumpus, 2022
Split This Rock, 2022
Acentos Review, 2020
poetry in printHill Rag Magazine, 2024
Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, 2022
Cave Canem, 2021
María Fernanda on Safiya Sinclair
Haymarket Books, 2020
Acentos Review, 2020
Jamii Publishing, 2019
Pa’lante a la luz, 2017
Washington, DC — Houston — San Francisco — Phoenix — Philadelphia — Seattle — Manhattan — The Bronx — Governor’s Island — Newark — Queens — San Antonio — Shirlington — Staten Island — Columbia, MD — Denton,TX — Governor’s Island — & more
María Fernanda performs across the United States. Check out her performances below.
Kramers Poetry Reading: Summer Edition, Kramerbooks & Afterwords, Washington, DC
Seen, Sound, Scribe, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
Second Wind, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC
James Baldwin’s Birthday: Casual Conversation with Renia White & María Fernanda, Sankofa Video Books & Café, Washington, DC
Poems in the Nebula, International Flor y Canto Literary Festival, Digital/San Francisco, CA
Poetry & Resistance, The Bronx is Reading - The Bronx Book Festival, Digital/The Bronx, NY
¿Dónde Esta Mi Gente? Water Songs, Ancestros Cantando, KQED, Digital/San Francisco, CA
LATI [sic] Colloquium, New Jersey City University, Digital/Jersey City, NJ
Being and Justice in Black Poetry, Denton Black Film Festival, Digital/Denton, TX
Black History Poems project, Youth Leadership Foundation, Digital/Washington, DC
Más Poesía, Menos Policía, Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement, Digital/Seattle, WA
Break Beat Poets: LatiNeXt Reading, Tintero Projects, Digital/Houston, TX
February First Friday @ PhxArt, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
First Saturday’s Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Brooklyn Museum and Cave Canem Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Smoking Lovely: The Remix! Haymarket Books, Digital/New York, NY
Refueling for Justice, Elevation Educational Consulting Group, Digital/Washington, DC
W.O.M. Feat. María Fernanda, Busboys & Poets, Washington, DC & Columbia, MD & Shirlington, VA
Soul Sisters Revue Anthology, East Village Poetry Salon, Digital/New York, NY
María Fernanda and Kirwyn Sutherland, The American Poetry Museum, Washington, DC
Queer Women Writers Bloom Now & In the Future, The Tenth Annual Rainbow Book Fair, The LGBT Community Center, New York, NY
Mess + Process, Kelly Writers’ House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Mano de Obra, The Queens Public Library/The Ecuadorian American Cultural Center, Queens, NY
Poets Out of Place, AWP/Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Digital/San Antonio, TX
#MeToo Movement, Freelancers Hub and Made in NY Media Center by IFP, New York, NY
Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Express Newark, Newark, NJ
Reading, Poder in Action, Phoenix, AZ
Poets for Puerto Rico: A Reading for Hurricane Relief, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, NY
Workshop Reading, Poetry Conversations with Rio Cortez, Cave Canem Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Eat a Pink Owl, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
XXO Triple Love reading series, The Bureau of General Services - Queer Division, New York, NY
New York City's Poetry Festival (English perf.; Spanish perf., not translated), Governor’s Island, NY
Women of Color Solidarity Conference, Intersections International, New York, NY
Latinx Against Everyone: Poetry and Protest, Powerhouse Books, Brooklyn, NY
Revival: A Benefit Reading for the Caribbean, Pratt Institute MFA in Writing, Brooklyn, NY
Princess Nokia’s Poems for Peace, Picture Room McNally Jackson Store, New York, NY
City & City, Denny’s Gallery, Contemporary Fine-Art Gallery, New York, NY
Parachute Literary Arts, New York Aquarium, Brooklyn, NY
