Lenelle Moïse

Lenelle Moïse, the author of Haiti Glass, is an award-winning poet, playwright and performer. She creates jazz-infused, hip-hop bred, politicized texts about the intersection of identity, memory and spirit. Moïse recites from hand-made scrolls, with fervor, music and movement. In addition to featured appearances at colleges, theatres, bookstores and conferences across the USA and Canada, she has performed at the Louisiana Superdome (for V to the 10th), at the United Nations and Off-Broadway at the Culture Project. The 2010-2012 Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA has also induced standing ovations at a number of colleges and unversities. She was the Spring 2011 Mellon Artist in Residence in the Performance Studies department at Northwestern University and the recipient of the 2009-2010 Astraea Lesbian Writers Award in Poetry. She was a Fall 2011 Fellow at the Ellen Stone Belic Institute at Columbia College Chicago and the Spring 2012 Visiting Performing Artist in African & African Diasporic Studies at the UT Austin. Curve Magazine calls her debut CD Madivinez “piercing, covering territory both intimate and political...vivid and powerful.” (more on the poet's website)