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Award-winning poet Nichole L. Shields is the author of One Less Road To Travel: A Collection of Poetry and is a two-time Gwendolyn Brooks poetry winner. Ms. Shields is a co-founder of Chicago Writers Collective: A Community of Writers and was one of the organizers of I, Griot: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants www.chicagowriterscollective.net, a photograph of Black Writers in Chicago (October 2003). Currently working on her second collection of poetry entitled Cousin Rita, putting the finishing touches on her new line of greeting cards (avail. October 2005), Ms. Shields also works for Brooks Permission, the company managing the literary works of acclaimed poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
Publisher: [s.n.] (1998)
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Print Publications:
&The
Iowa Review
&Nexus
Publication
&Rhapsody
&Mosaic Literary Magazine
&BlackLines
Architectural Magazine
&360' A Revolution of Black
Poets
&bum
rush the page: A Def Jam Anthology
&WarpLand
Until
Freedom Rings for Mumia (CD)
Stage Performances includes:
' Afrika West Bookstore
' FrontLine
International Bookstore
' Chicago State
University
' Edna's Soul Food
Caf'Friday poetry series
' Third World Press/New
Concept School (one of four organizers of the 24-Hour Poetry-Thon)
' The DuSable Museum of
African American History
' The Third Floor Poets
Forum
' Kraft International
Foods
' Afrikan Festival of
the Arts
' Thread the Needle
Television Program (all Chicago)
' 360'
Reading: The University of Baltimore,
College Park
' Reciprocity Bookstore,
Dallas, TX
' Black Images Bookstore,
Dallas
' Broadside Press'
Poetry Series (Detroit)
' The Novotel Hotel
(Dakar, Senegal)
Contact information for Nichole L. Shields:
P.O. Box 4377
Chicago, IL 60680
(312) 491.8256*
(312) 829.3676* Fax
nicholelshields at yahoo.com
One Less Road To Travel: A Collection of
Poetry