Cynthia Parker-Ohene is a therapist, abolitionist, and cultural worker. She is an MFA graduate in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California, and the Chester Aaron Scholar for Excellence in Creative Writing. She is a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, Winner of the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Poetry Prize. Her recent work has appeared or forthcoming in 5 Points Literary Review, TriQuarterly, Northwest Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2022, Poetry Daily, Obsidian, among others. She has received or will receive support from VCCA 2024, Tin House, Callaloo, Juniper, Post Graduate Writers Conference/Vermont Fine Arts College, and elsewhere, as well as work in the anthologies, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature, and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. She is also a Poetry Reader for The Adroit Journal. Her book "Daughters of Harriet" was published by The Center for Literary Publishing/Colorado State University in 2022 and "Drapetomania" published by Backbone Press in 2017.

Other poems by Cynthia Parker-Ohene in Verse Daily:
February 25, 2021:   "Then I Will Speak On The Ashes" "This is a story about borders and migrations..."

Other poems on the web by Cynthia Parker-Ohene:
Three poems
"Once Upon A Forever"
Two poems
Four poems

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April 29, 2019:   "Brother" Lisa Julie
September 2, 2016:   "Charolais" by John Kinsella
August 31, 2016:   "When I Had Died" by Cynthia Huntington
February 9, 2016:   "Funeral in Vermont" by Andrea Hollander
November 21, 2015:   "Ode to Chronic Insolvency" "I lived in an apartment..."
November 20, 2015:   "Ascension" by Philip Levine
March 31, 2015:   "Mrs. Cavendish and the Learning Curve" by Stephen Dunn
March 30, 2015:   "Passing Phase" by Stephen Dunn
November 9, 2013:   "The Rescue" by Chelsea Rathburn
February 7, 2011:   "Casals" by Gerald Stern
September 8, 2010:   "Converted Church" by Medbh McGuckian
December 15, 2009:   "The Opening" by Philip Schultz
May 14, 2009:   "Contentment" by Jane Hirshfield
May 12, 2009:   "Storm Catechism" by Kim Addonizio
November 19, 2008:   "Guess Work" by Christopher Buckley
November 18, 2008:   "When I Was the Muse" by Kate Daniels
November 17, 2008:   "Dog & Father" by Sam Pereira
May 26, 2008:   "Death by Wind" by Gerald Stern
November 11, 2007:   "Disciplines" by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
November 7, 2007:   "Heart Poem" by Mary Oliver
November 5, 2007:   "Easeful Death" by Kim Addonizio
March 18, 2006:   "After a Month of Rain" by Linda Pastan
October 28, 2005:   "Gone" by Malena Mörling
October 27, 2005:   "Fears" Rodney Jones
October 26, 2005:   "Flamingo Film" Dave Smith
October 24, 2005:   "October Storm" David Baker
May 8, 2005:  "Riding" Robert W. Hill
May 5, 2005:  "Vessel" Cecily Parks
May 2, 2005:  "Heavenly" Mary Oliver
October 23, 2004:  "Unsound Ship" by Medbh McGuckian
September 19, 2003:  "No Shelter" by Ann Townsend

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