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
Nonwhite and Woman, Woodhall Press, forthcoming, 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, 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 timetotell.org/beneath-the-soil, 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
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
