Chocolate WatersChocolate Waters has been writing and publishing poetry for over five decades. During the second wave of feminism, she was one of the first openly lesbian poets to publish and her contribution has been documented in Feminists Who Changed America 19631975 (U of Il. Press, Barbara Love, Ed.) To the man reporter from the Denver Post, Take Me Like A Photograph & Charting New Waters published from 1975-80, are considered classics of the early women's movement. A chapbook collection, the woman who wouldn't shake hands, was published by Poets Wear Prada in 2011. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Poetry, a fellowship from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and in 2006 was awarded a ''fruitie'' for the best poetry performance in the Fresh Fruit Festival held in Manhattan. Her poetry, which has won many individual awards in addition to being nominated for several Pushcart prizes, is widely published & anthologized. Hailed as the ''Poet Laureate of Hell's Kitchen, '' Waters is also a pioneer in the art of performance poetry. She has toured throughout the United States but makes her home in Manhattan. Visit her at www.ChocolateWaters.com. Read More Read Less