Name Pamela Sneed | Role Poet | |
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Books Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery: Poems, Kong and Other Works Nominations Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry | ||
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Pamela Sneed is an American poet, performance artist, actress, activist, and teacher. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery (Henry Holt, 1998), and KONG And Other Works (Vintage Entity Press, 2009) and the chapbook, Lincoln (2014). Her poems and monologues have also been anthologized in The 100 Best African American Poems, edited by Nikki Giovanni. Recent publications include work in Best Monologues from Best American Short Plays and Future Perfect.
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Sneed has held readings and performances at Center Stage at The Studio Museum, P.S. 122, Creative Time @ The Brooklyn Anchorage, Exit Art, Lincoln Center Ex-Teresa in Mexico City, The ICA London, The CCA in Glasgow, Scotland, The Green Room in Manchester, England, Literatur Werkstat in Berlin. She also headlined the New Work Now Festival at Joe’s Pub/Public Theater in 2005.
An out lesbian, Sneed taught voice, performance and autobiographical writing at Long Island University, and currently teaches writing for solo performance and solo performance at Sarah Lawrence College.
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