Parthenia M. Hicks

Poet, Spoken Word Artist

San Jose, CA

California US

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Author's Bio

Parthenia M. Hicks is the Poet Laureate Emerita of Los Gatos, CA. and a freelance writer and editor with a Masters of Divinity in Kriya Yoga. She teaches privately and performs and reads poetry in the Bay Area. Her recent work is featured in Song of Los Gatos/Poems of the Gem City; The Call: An Anthology of Women’s Writing; Remembering: An Anthology of Poems; Sweet Obsession: The Art of Lynn Powers, and Local Habitations, featuring the poetry of five Bay Area Poets Laureate; and in The Red Wheelbarrow and CHEST medical journal.

Publications & Prizes

Poetry

Anthology:

The Call: An Anthology of Women's Writing (Dragonfly Press, 2009)

Journals:

Chest

Red Wheelbarrow

The Montserrat Review

Spoken Word

Performances:

Center for Spiritual Enlightenment (2013)

Harker Speaker Series/Silicon Valley Reads (2013)

De Anza Theatre (2012)

Los Gatos Council Chambers (2011)

Triton Museum of Art (2011)

Center for Spiritual Enlightenment (2010)

Prizes won:

--Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowship in the Genre of the Short Story
--The Robinson Jeffers Tor House Poetry Prize --The Villa Montalvo Biennial Poetry Prize
--Two Pushcart nominations, one for poetry and one for short story

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney, Poems New and Colledted by Wislawa Szymborska, You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake by Anna Moschovakis, Perma Red by Earling, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Mixed-Race

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Portsmouth

Raised in:

Portsmouth, VA

Virginia

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Last update: Feb 10, 2016