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World Champion Slam Poet & Diversity Educator

Denice Frohman Speaking Fee: $10,000 and Below

World Champion Slam Poet & Diversity Educator

Speaker Profile Thumbnail for Denice Frohman
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$10,000 and Below

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Denice Frohman Speaker Profile: At A Glance

Denice Frohman is an award-winning poet, performer, and educator from New York City. For nearly two decades she has performed widely on national and international stages from The Apollo to The White House. Her work explores the complexities of language, lineage, queerness, and the colonial relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico. Frohman sees her poetry as a tool for social change, cultural preservation, and aims to subvert traditional notions of power and knowledge.

Denice Frohman is a poet, performer and educator from New York City. A CantoMundo Fellow, she’s received residencies and awards from the National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures, Leeway Foundation, Millay Colony and Blue Mountain Center. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The BreakBeat Poets: LatiNext, Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color, ESPNW and elsewhere. A former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, she’s featured on hundreds of stages from The White House to The Apollo, and co-organized #PoetsforPuertoRico. She lives in Philadelphia.
Book titled: reading, writing, and rising up: teaching about social justice and the power of the written word
Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word
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