YVONNE was the first poetry editor at two pioneer feminist magazines from the ‘Seventies through the ‘Eighties, Aphra and Ms. She has received many awards for her poetry including two NEAs (1974/1984), a Mary Roberts Rinehart fellowship (1974), a New York State Council on the Arts fellowship (1981), and a BRIO award (1991). Under her full name, Yvonne Chism-Peace, she received a Leeway Foundation award (2003) for fiction. Early print publications include 161 One-Minute Monologues from Literature (Smith and Kraus), This Sporting Life (Milkweed), Bless Me, Father: Stories of Catholic Childhood (Plume), Catholic Girls (Plume/Penguin), Tangled Vines (HBJ), Celebrations: A New Anthology of Black American Poetry (Follett), The Third Woman (Houghton Mifflin), We Become New (Bantam), Pushcart Prize (vol. 6), and many journals such as Callaloo, Obsidian, New York Quarterly. Yvonne is the author of an epic trilogy: Iwilla/Soil (1985), Iwilla/Scourge (1986), Iwilla/Rise (1999), all published by Chameleon Productions.
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Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion and Social Justice" (Cave Moon Press, 2022)
Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University "Norman Rockwell & Me", pp. 116, 117)
Arriving at a Shoreline (great weather for MEDIA, 2022: greatweatherformedia.co) "Another Rendezvous", p. 51
Quiet Diamonds -- Summer 2022, (Orchard Street Press: P.O. Box 280, Gates Mills, OH 44040), "1833 Webster Street", p. 39
Contemporary Verse 2 -- "Hope Or Do We Have One: Poetry For Uncertain Times", Fall 2020, Vol. 43., No. 2 (Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1H3, Canada). Available only by purchase.
"No U-Turn"
EVENT -- Issue 49/1 (available for purchase in print or digital format) (Douglas College: New Westminster, British Columbia V3L 5B2, Canada)
"The Last Restuarant"
"Ghost Map"
Metonym Literary Journal -- Spring 2020, Vol. X (Tenth Anniversary edition) (William Jessup University: Rocklin, CA 95765)
"Young Adult, Not Novel: The Gables"
"Young Adult, Not Novel: Erased, 1962"
Pennsylvania English -- Fall, 2020 Vol. 40.2 (141-142)
"Way of the Cross"
"The Sound of Music"
Yellow Arrow Journal, Home -- Spring 2020, Vol. V, No. 2 [PDF]
"Behind Closed Doors: The Lena O. Smith House"
Pinyon Literary Journal -- Spring 2019, Number 28 (Colorado Mesa University: 1100 North Avenue, Grand Junction, CO 81501)
"Movie Moves"
"I Walk Away"
"A Small Thing, A Spoonful"
The Nassau Review -- Spring, 2019 (Nassau Commmunity College: One Education Dr., Garden City, NY 11530)
"The Wrong Bird"
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Quiet Diamonds (1) -- Summer 2018 (Orchard Street Press: P.O. Box 280, Gates Mills, OH 44040). Contact publisher for information about this issue.
"Ghost Trolley"
Quiet Diamonds (2) -- Summer 2019 (Orchard Street Press: P.O. Box 280, Gates Mills, OH 44040)
"An Only Child"
QWERTY -- Vol. 43, pp. 53-55, (University of New Brunswick, P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, NB E 3B 5A3)
"Food Travels"
Bosque Issue #8 -- 2018 (Bosque Press: Albuquerque, NM 87006)
"711-715 South 12th Street"
"762 South Martin Street"
