Erica Miriam Fabri
An Evolution of the Spoken Word, Verse for the Stage, Performing Poetry, Fiction Writing - Performing Arts General
Email: efabri@pace.edu
Erica Miriam Fabri is a poet and performer and the author of Dialect of a Skirt, (Hanging Loose Press, 2010) and Morphology (forthcoming, 2025). Her work has been published in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies, and she has worked on projects as a writer, editor, and performance director for The New York Knicks, Urban Word NYC, HBO, and Nickelodeon Television. Her poetry has been featured in multi-media formats for short films and television commercial programming. She has been a featured and/or visiting poet and performer for numerous art festivals and outreach programs, including drug rehabilitation centers, prisons, and hospitals.
Creative Works:
- Fragments #2023: A series of visual art videos created in 2023 featuring small fragments of longer works of poetry presented by ZAZ CORNER 鈥淚N BETWEEN鈥� 10 Times Square Billboard, South East Corner of 41st Street and 7th Avenue
- The Baxter Street Blues: (short film/poetry film, 5 minutes, 2013, writer/director/actor) Official Festival Selection for The NYC Independent Film Festival and The NYLA International Film Festival.
- Dialect of a Skirt, book/poetry, Hanging Loose Press, 2010
- Courage: Daring Poems for Gutsy Girls, anthology/poetry, Write Bloody Publishing, 2014
- CHORUS: A Literary Mixtape, edited by Saul Williams, anthology/poetry, MTV Books, 2012
Awards:
- Nominated for the KENAN Teaching Excellence Award 2021
- 鈥淣ot a Beautiful Poem,鈥� Finalist, North American Review鈥檚 2018 James Hearst Poetry Prize
- "Dialect of a Skirt," The Poetry Foundation Best-Seller Book List, October 2010
- "Dialect of a Skirt," SPD Best-Seller's Book List, June 2010
- "Dialect of a Skirt," Best Books of 2009, About.com
- Writer's Residency, Omega Institute, 2009