Kimberly Jae has been selected by the Ruth Weiss Foundation as Finalist for the Maverick Award!  https://www.ruthweissfoundation.org/2023-awards/jae  

Kimberly Jae has won another fellowship!  She will be attending the 2024 Roots, Wounds and Words 2024 Writers’ Retreat for Storytellers of Color! 

Kimberly Jae guest curates for Zoeglossia's August Poem of the week series.  This month's curation, On Navigating Love & Disability Across North America, I am beyond honored to feature the work of Lisa Shen (Canada,) Merrick Soleil (USA,) Charlie Petch (Canada,) and a new poem of mine! These accomplished, published writers, a mix of award winning, performance artists, slam poets, and visual artists, have crafted poems of their take on love and acceptance through the lens of their life and disability. They bring their voices and their styles. Their experiences. They explore these motifs not in the box we are often placed in, a lens of pity, but through their authentic experiences. It is the goal of this month’s series to convey that we love. That everyone yearns for acceptance, including us. That we find acceptance within ourselves first. And you, dear reader, I strive for you to finish this series and see us not as a structured box of victimhood, full of stereotypes but as living, breathing humans who live, love, experience, hurt, grow, heal regardless of any brokenness our bodies may have.

I want to thank @zoeglossia for giving me this opportunity! This was such an enriching and rewarding experience! I also want to thank the poets for trusting me with their work!

Check out these and other poems by phenomenal writers with disabilities at

https://www.zoeglossia.org/poem-of-the-week

Click the name of the poet to link to their work, both text and audio! Check out their bios to learn more about them and the exciting things they are working on now!

Kimberly Jae closes out the Zoeglossia Conference as a featured performer!

Kimberly Jae's poem, "Cascade," will be published by Zoeglossia in their anthology, Zoomglossia! Stay tuned for more details! 

Kimberly Jae guest curates for Zoeglossia's August Poem of the week series.  This month's curation, On Navigating Love & Disability Across North America, I am beyond honored to feature the work of Lisa Shen (Canada,) Merrick Soleil (USA,) Charlie Petch (Canada,) and a new poem of mine! These accomplished, published writers, a mix of award winning, performance artists, slam poets, and visual artists, have crafted poems of their take on love and acceptance through the lens of their life and disability. They bring their voices and their styles. Their experiences. They explore these motifs not in the box we are often placed in, a lens of pity, but through their authentic experiences. It is the goal of this month’s series to convey that we love. That everyone yearns for acceptance, including us. That we find acceptance within ourselves first. And you, dear reader, I strive for you to finish this series and see us not as a structured box of victimhood, full of stereotypes but as living, breathing humans who live, love, experience, hurt, grow, heal regardless of any brokenness our bodies may have.

I want to thank @zoeglossia for giving me this opportunity! This was such an enriching and rewarding experience! I also want to thank the poets for trusting me with their work!

Check out these and other poems by phenomenal writers with disabilities at

https://www.zoeglossia.org/poem-of-the-week

Click the name of the poet to link to their work, both text and audio! Check out their bios to learn more about them and the exciting things they are working on now!

Kimberly Jae's poem Domestic Violence Respectability Politics was nominated for the Pushcart!!!  

Kimberly was named the winner of the Visionary Arts Poetry Prize in Honor of Reza Adboh.  If you would like to read Domestic Violence Respectibility Politics, her award winning poem, please follow the link

https://www.tofuink.com/reza-abdoh-2022-prize-winners

Kimberly Jae was selected to attend the Crip Poetry Workshop offered via the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture @ University of Manitoba in Canada!!!  The program selected less than 15 applicants and is offered tuition free!  So proud of Kimberly Jae!

Kimberly Jae's poem, "Simulation" was selected by Zoeglossia for their Poem of the Week Series!  To read please follow the link: https://www.zoeglossia.org/zgp59-kimberly-jae  

Kimberly Jae co-presented Crip Cash: Resisting the Commodification of Disabled Identities at the [margins.] Conference. She served on a panel discussing disability and being a disabled artist in American economy.

Kimberly Jae's poem, "The Beginning of a Long Poem on Why I burned the Hospital Down (after Lawrence Benford,)" was published by Stillhouse Press in their anthology, In Between the Spaces: an Anthology of Disabled Writers.  To purchase, please follow the link https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces  

Kimberly Jae presents Integrating Poetry/ Media Arts and Theatre with Common Core Workshop at the Mass Poetry Festival.  This workshop delves into curriculum design, using free tools to write curriculum to intergrate poetry, media arts and theatre.

Kimberly Jae places #3 at Hammer & Tongue Slam, Cambridge, UK Slam!!!

Kimberly Jae's poem, White Privilege Is, is named on the Disquiet Literary Prize Longlist!

Kimberly won the Hot Damn! It’s a Queer Slam Qualifier!

Kimbelry Jae's full length manuscript, Baptism, was selected by The Black Spring Press Group for the shortlist of the The Sexton Prize.

Kimberly Jae was awarded the Langston Hughes Fellowship by the Palm Beach Poetry Festival.  She will be using the fellowship to attend the festival.  Please send well wishes!

Kimberly Jae's poem, "#Somelivesmatter," was published in Hawai’i Review by the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.  Follow here to purchase: https://hawaiireview.org/subscribe 

Kimberly Jae's poem, "Black Momma Math," has been published by Bridge and Tunnel Books in their anthology,  In the Shadow of the Mic: Three Decades of Slam Poetry in Pittsburgh.  To purchase, please follow the link  https://www.bridgeandtunnelbooks.com/shop/in-the-shadow-of-the-mic  

Kimberly performs "Simulation" in Poetry Foundation's One Poem: A Protest Reading in Support of Black Lives

To view the recording, go to the VIDEOS tab or follow this the link!

https://poets.org/one-poem-protest-reading-support-black-lives starts at 7:44

On March 28, 2019, Kimberly Jae suffered a stroke that has led to Aphasia, a langauge based disability that affects her ability to read, write, speak and comprehend lanuage.  She is still recovering as doctors continue to investigate the cause.  Please send well wishes and prayers. 

Kimberly Jae's poem, "But Brown Girl Starts to Fall in Love Again," was selected by Zoeglossia to be featured in their Poem of the Week series! To read the poem, please follow the link:  https://www.zoeglossia.org/kimberly-jae

Kimberly Jae's poems, "Tuesday (Mary Motherfucking Poppins) and Curse of a Strong Back," were published in This Thing Called Poetry: An Anthology of Poems by Young Adults with Cancer, by Finishing Line Press.

To purchase copies, please follow the link!

https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/this-thing-called-poetry-an-anthology-of-poems-by-young-adults-with-cancer-edited-by-kathleen-henderson-staudt-sponsored-by-the-brendan-ogg-memorial-fund/

Kimberly Jae's poem, "Muse," was published in the Alt-Minds Literary Magazine out of Toronto, Canada!

We hate to announce this news. Kimberly Jae suffered a stroke today.  Please keep her in prayers as she recovers.

Kimberly Jae features at Drunken Retort!  If you would like to check out the show, follow this link: https://www.facebook.com/MrGregoryFoster/videos/10106011514119535/ 

Be warned!  This show features strong language and discusses suicide.

Kimbelrly Jae co presents on Slam Poetry at the 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication

Kimberly Jae won the Hot Damn Slam in Guelph, Ontario!  She will compete in the finals on April 5, 2019!

Kimberly Jae is going on her Canadian TOUR January 17 thru January 19.  Come see her 

Burlington Slam Project, Thursday January 17
London Poetry Slam, Friday January 18
Guelph Poetry Slam, Saturday January 19

Kimberly Jae is not only performing at Red Emma's Poetry Vibe, but her book, The Fuckery Monologues, is now available for purchase at Red Emma's!  Come see her perform and get a copy of her book!

Erotic Poetry???? Yes, Kimberly has that!  Come hear Kimberly pull out her erotic poetry she never gets a chance to do in traditional slam!  Chapbooks will be available!

Kimberly presents her work for City of Asylum's 2018 Jazz Poetry Month!  Show starts at 7pm!

Kimberly opens up Steel City Slam's 2018-2019 Season as the featured artist!  

Kimberly is headed for a Baltimore/DC Tour!  Kimberly will be featuring at:

August 10, 2018- Heard it through the Grapevine

August 11, 2018- Red Emma's

August 13, 2018- Busboys and Poets

August 14, 2018- Busboys and Poets

August 15, 2018- Busboys and Poets

Kimberly won the Steel City IWPS Qualifier!  Kimberly will be representing Steel City for the Individual World Poetry Slam in San Deigo in October!

Kimberly's poem, Upon Considering Boob Privilige, is published by Pen 2 Pen on their website!  Check it out here https://www.txdisabilities.org/news-events/pen-2-paper-the-ones-that-got-away-may  

Six poets will compete for a cash prize of $100.  Kimberly will be featuring along side JJ Dae.  There will also be a short open mic list.  Cover is $5 at the door.  Bars of Steel Slam T-shirts will be on sale for $10.

Placing 1st in a fierce competition against 9 other highly ranked poets, Kimberly is going to compete at the National Poetry Slam in Chicago in August!

Kimberly Jae won Steel City Grand Slam! She will be joining 3 other phenomenal poets at the National Poetry Slam in Chicago in August!

Kimberly along with Simpli Sherri (Busboys and Poets, 2nd Wednesdays, Pajama Jammy Jam Slam), Tyler French and Reggie Cabico (founder, Capturing Fire) will feature at the Botticelli in the Fire Appetizer event hosted by Wooly Mammoth Theater!  Scenes from Wooly Mammoth's upcoming show, Botticelli in the Fire, interspersed with erotic poetry as a appetizer for what's to come!   

After fierce competition Kimberly takes the 2018 Queen of Steel Slam crown!

Kimberly won the 2018 BOSS Queen of Steel Slam!

Featuring at Acoustic Soul in Baltimore on September 21st!  More info to follow!