Upcoming Events!
FORCE Launch Party
For colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange
For colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange
Excited for Monica's upcoming choreopoem, FORCE? Join her and some local writers at the Art Academy of Milton in January for the launch party! There'll be food! There'll be drinks! There'll be sexy readings and books for sale!
DATE: Sunday, January 18, 2026
TIME: 1:00-3:30PM
LOCATION: Art Academy of Milton
38 S Front St
Milton, PA 17847
RSVP below (it's optoinal, but if it helps you!)
For colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange
For colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange
For colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange
"From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country for nearly fifty years. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be a woman of color in the 20th century.
First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing…every feeling and experience a woman has ever had,” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Now with new introductions by Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown, and one poem not included in the original, here is the complete text of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world." —
Monica's Performance Skills
Coaching
Write About Now Stage
Performance Artist
Monica's favorite part of performance when she isn't doing it herself is coaching other writers to get on stage and share their art. Whether in classrooms or at Creative Writing Camp, Monica can coach the stage fright out of anyone (well, almost anyone).
Photo credit: Monica Prince
Performance Artist
Write About Now Stage
Performance Artist
Monica always performs in high heels. She adopted this rule of performance when she was eighteen, and hasn't looked back. She is available for readings, choreopoem tastings, and open mic hosting.
Photo Credit: Jennifer Garza Photography
To book Monica, hit that purple button there.
Write About Now Stage
Write About Now Stage
Write About Now Stage
Since discovering Write About Now, one of Houston's many slam poetry communities, you can find Monica on this stage at least once a year, primarily during the summer while she teaches in the Creative Writing Camp. This stage is full of welcoming and loving people, and anyone looks good under the lights at Avant Garden.
Photo Credit: Christopher Diaz Photography
Publication Alert!
Read Monica's latest essay, "Keep Fucking Going," and her latest poem, "Golden Shovel for a Lover's Fear of Abandonment," in the inaugural issue of Twisted Tongue!