Forthcoming:
Limp Wrist: "A Poem for My Uterus' Depression" and "My Uterus Responds to My Allegation That She's Depressed," TBD
Black Visions: A Jeffrey "Boosie" Bolden Anthology by The Fourth River: excerpt from Roadmap: A Choreopoem, TBD
Painted Bride Quarterly: Issue 103: Gestation & Change: "Last Night, I Had Another Nightmare about Pregnancy," TBD
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Currents: "Better," February 2022
The Rumpus: Letters in the Mail: "Cheat & Forgive: A Choreopoem Letter," January 2022
Wildness: Issue 28: "Even in Cartoons, We're Scared of the Black One," November 2021
The Missouri Review: Poem-of-the-Week: "On Grieving My Nexplanon After Its Removal," August 16, 2021
trampset: "Black Women Don't Experience Pain Tolerance," December 2020
The Rumpus: "Patience is a Virtue," "Temporary," and "An Orgasm So Good, You'll See God," Rumpus Original Poetry, October 2020
American Poetry Journal: "Do Not Pray," Issue 18.2, July 2020
Tammy 9: "Trauma as a Cigarette," Winter 2019
The Pangolin Review: "Flexible," "Pull Me Back," and "Refrigerator," Issue 7, November 2018
The Same: "Black Girl Magic: Origin Story," October 2018
Spire Light: A Journal of Creative Expression: "Chez N'Diaye: Fatou," "The Apranti," and "Letter to the Mother of a Suicidal Teenager," April 2018
The Shade Journal: Issue 2: "Condition of the Mother," April 2017
Forthcoming:
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The Rumpus: "Cure for Last Night's Leftovers," March 2022
Essay Daily: B-sides for The Texas Review's All-Essay Issue: "Tell It Backwards: an Erasure," June 2021
Artemis: "Grief as an Excuse," January 2021
The Texas Review: All-Essay Issue: "Fight, Flee, Freeze," December 2020
Exhume: Issue 001: "How to Survive a Breakup: Go for a Run," September 2018
HerStory: Modern Love Edition: "How to Survive a Breakup: Stop Taking Your Pills," February 2018
MadCap Review: Issue 7: "Guide to Meeting the Woman Your Lover Is Fucking," January 2018
Round Up Magazine: "High Heels & Fresh Air," January 2018
Fourth & Sycamore: "How to Survive a Breakup: Get a Houseplant," December 2017
TRACK//FOUR: Issue 4: "How to Survive a Breakup: Shave Your Head" and "How to Survive a Breakup: Sponsor a Child in Africa," July 2017
MadCap Review: Issue 5: "How to Survive a Breakup: Quit Smoking," January 2017
Thrillist Media Group, Sex & Dating Vertical: "What I Learned from 5 Years as a 'Vagina Monologues' Actor," April 2016
MadCap Review: Issue 3: "Seasonal," July 2015
Patterson Performing Arts Development Council: For Colored Boyz on the verge of a nervous breakdown / when freedom aint enuff by Bryan-Keyth Wilson, staged virtual performance, directed by Monica Prince, June 25, 2021
White Whale Bookstore: How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem by Monica Prince, staged virtual reading, directed by Monica Prince, April 30, 2021
Susquehanna University's Dept. of Theatre: A Pageant of Agitating Women by Monica Prince and Anna Andes, staged virtual reading, directed by Anna Andes, October 9, 2020
Susquehanna University's Dept. of Theatre: A Pageant of Agitating Women by Monica Prince and Anna Andes, staged experimental workshop, directed by Anna Andes, February 27-March 1, 2020
The Vintage Theatre as part of the 2018 International Women's Voice Theater Festival: How to Exterminate the Black Woman by Monica Prince, staged reading, directed by Margaret Norwood, January 21, 2018, Lakewood, CO
The CutOut Theatre: Testify by Monica Prince, directed and choreographed by Thea and Avery Wigglesworth, December 4, 5, 10, 11, 2015, Brooklyn, NY
Culture Rants
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly: Issue 13: "How Do You Say That Word?: Choreopoems and Cultural Relevance," May 2018
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly: Issue 9: "To Be a Real Writer: Privileged Writing Advice," May 2017
Book Reviews
Santa Fe Writers Project Publisher's Blog: “Make Your Descendants Proud: Ancestral Worship, Language Ownership, and Whose Stories We Tell in Rion Amilcar Scott’s The World Doesn’t Require You,” November 2019
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly: “Motherhood as Existence in All We Can Hold: Poems of Motherhood edited by Elise Gregory, Emily Gwinn, Kaleen McCandless, Kate Maude, and Laura Walker,” October 1, 2016
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly: “Trading Insults for Healing in The Dozen by Casey Rocheteau,” October 1, 2016
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly: “Hide and Seek from the Top of the ferrous wheel: Book Review for Natalie Sharp’s ferrous wheel," July 1, 2016
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly: “Sipping Espresso with Pepper Girl: Book Review for Jonterri Gadson’s Pepper Girl,” July 1, 2016
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