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Imani's poems are anthems to family, love and freedom. Tolliver offers windows and mirrors in her poetry--open vision and multifaceted interior reflection. If you can go as deep as she does in this work, you'll experience
a profoundly lyrical voice and a wise one, too.



Eloise Klein Healy, Award-Winning Poet, Founding Editor

of Arktoi Books, FOUNDING CHAIR OF MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING AT ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY, Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing emerita, Antioch University Los Angeles



LA Time Capsule: Art Block Zine Vol. 10, DSTL Arts, 2025



LGBTQ+ Survivor Stories, Braver Collective, 2024



Good/Evil: Art Block Zine Vol. 9, DSTL Arts, 2024



Beneath the Soil Volume III: Queer Survivors E-Zine, Time to Tell Project, 2024



Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Heritage Month Calendar & Cultural Guide, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, 2024



Intertextuality Starts Here: Art Block Zine Vol. 8, DSTL Arts, 2023



SKEW 04: Black Embodiment, Level Ground Magazine, 2023



Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Heritage Month Calendar & Cultural Guide, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, 2023



Beneath the Soil Volume II: Queer Survivors E-Zine, Time to Tell Project, 2023



Nonwhite and Woman, Woodhall Press, 2022



Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Heritage Month Calendar & Cultural Guide, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, 2022



Scenes of Southern California Vol.2: Poetry of Places, Four Feathers Press, 2022



The Library Love Letter: Letters One, 2022



African American Heritage Month Calendar & Cultural Guide, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, 2022



SKEW 3: Black Abundance A Celebration of Blackness as an Extravaganza of/in Black Beings, Expressions and Revolutions, Level Ground Magazine, 2021



LACMA Unframed I See Myself In You. Personal Essay and Self-Portrait Tutorial Inspired by the Black American Portraits Exhibition. unframed.lacma.org, 2021



Beneath the Soil: Queer Survivor's E-Zine, Time to Tell Project, 2021



Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Heritage Month Calendar & Cultural Guide, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, 2021



African American Heritage Month Calendar & Cultural Guide, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, 2021



Love Letters in Light Public Poetry Project, Los Angeles County Library & Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health's WE RISE, 2021



PublicIntellectuals.org, 2020



African American Heritage Month Calendar & Cultural Guide, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, 2020



African American Heritage Month Calendar & Cultural Guide, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, 2019



Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Heritage Month Calendar & Cultural Guide, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, 2019



Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Heritage Month Calendar & Cultural Guide, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, 2018



Runaway: A Memoir in Verse, World Stage Press, 2017



CulturalDaily.com, 2017



Voices From Leimert Park: Redux,
Harriet Tubman Press, 2017



Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Heritage Month Calendar and Cultural Guide, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, 2017 



Corners of the Mouth: A Celebration of Thirty Years at the Annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival, Deer Tree Press, 2015



Her Kind, A Literary Community Powered By Vida: Women in Literary Arts, Hair as Storyteller and Reimaginator: A Conversation with Imani Tolliver and Beth Gilstrap, 2013



Don’t Blame the Ugly Mug, Moon Tide Press, 2011



Van Gogh’s Ear #7: The Supernatural Edition, 2009 



HIS RIB: Poems, Stories & Essays by Her, 2007



Voices from Leimert Park, 2006



PoetrySuper Highway.com, Eighth Annual Yom Hashoah Holocaust Remembrance Day Issue, 2006



HandToothNail.com, 2006



GetUnderground.com, 2005



AllAboutJazz.com, 2004



PoeticDiversity.org, 2004



My Man: Love Poems Chapbook, 2003



San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly Vol. 17, 2002



Beyond the Frontier, Black Classic Press, 2002



Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Russell Simmons Productions, 2001



Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature, Wiley and Sons, 2000



Drum Voices Review, Eugene Redmond, 2000



Cave Canem VIII, Cave Canem Publishing, 1999



Cave Canem IV, Cave Canem Publishing, 1999



Black Love, Beyond Baroque Books, 1999



Jones Juke Joint Magic, Jones Juke Joint Still Press, 1998



Cave Canem II, Cave Canem Publishing, 1997



The Drumming Between Us, Peter J. Harris Publications, 1997



Poets Mama Didn't Raise, Smirna Press, 1996



Artistic Pedigree Magazine, 1995



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