Hello! I’m S. Erin Batiste!
Interdisciplinary Poet and Artist
West Coast bred.
Brooklyn based.
World bound.
Who
S. Erin Batiste is an interdisciplinary poet and artist. Author of the chapbook, Glory to All Fleeting Things, her poetry has been published and anthologized internationally in wildness, Interim, and New Letters as the 2023 Winner of the Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry. She is a 2024 Loghaven Writer in Residence. Additionally, she has received fellowships and generous support from New York Foundation for the Arts, Cave Canem, PEN America, The Poetry Project, Poets & Writers, Tin House, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and Rona Jaffe Foundation among other honors. She is currently working on her debut poetry collection, Hoard.
Batiste runs Revival Archival Cards, Collage & Salvage (RACCS) — a mobile arts studio in Brooklyn. Her collages have appeared in Create! Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, and The BOOOOOOOM Care Art & Photo Book. Her artwork has exhibited in New York and premiered last fall at The Center for Afrofuturist Studies 2023 Ordinary Survival Inaugural Film Festival. Batiste's practice is rooted in accumulation and maximalism, and she is influenced by beauty, otherworlds, migration, divination and astrology, Americana, archives, and what remains. Her work centers Black women—and examines themes of freedom, the complexity of memory, what we consider history, and the ways we all inherit and collect possessions and stories.
What
COLLAGE:
"The majestic past was cast and created and rose . . ." plus six additional new works and an audio collage from the Major Arcana collage series | Obsidian O|Sessions - Black Listening, March 2024
"Cosmic Care #2" from the Major Arcana collage series | The BOOOOOOOM Care Art & Photo Book, March 2024
Six works from the Major Arcana collage series | Michigan Quarterly Review, Transversions: Archives, Testimony & Reimagination, 2023
Ten works from the Major Arcana collage series | Create! Magazine, The Water Issue #39, feature curated by Black Women in Visual Art co-founders Daricia Mia DeMarr and Lauren Jackson Harris, 2023
FLASH:
"Congratulations, You’re Approved! We Are Pleased to Welcome You to Your New Habitation!" (Honorable Mention, Storm Cellar Force Majeure Flash Contest*) | Storm Cellar, 2021
ONLINE:
"Dear Forgiveness, in the Second Year of the Pandemic, Pantone Announces Ultimate Gray as Color of the Year" | Interim: Black The [Or] Y: Praxis, Sum Unknown, 2021
"Reincarnation" | Epiphany Fresh Voices Finalist Feature, 2021
"Notes From Workshop: An Abecedarian" (2021 Peseroff Poetry Prize Finalist*) | Breakwater Review, 2021
"Warning, Do Not Eat Your Fortune: 40 Dating Reminders Every Woman Over 40+ Needs to Hear Now!" (2021 Sandy Crimmins Poetry Contest Editor’s Choice*) Also featured in print | Philadelphia Stories, 2021
"The Yellow Jackets" | Verse Daily, 2021
"At Trader Joe's in South Pasadena" | West Trestle Review, Fairlies Reprint, 2020
"About The Author, Part III," "Matrilineage," and "WANTED" | glitterMOB mag, 2018
"About The Author, Part II," "Glory to All Fleeting Things," and "How to Sever Yourself from Sorrow" +Interview | Puerto del Sol, 2018
"Date Night" (2019 Best of the Net Nomination*) and "The Yellow Jackets" (2019 Best New Poets Nomination*) | wildness, 2018
"A Record of Everything I've Outlived" | Peach Mag, 2018
"Questions Asked to Me When I Was Ten" | Cosmonauts Avenue, 2018
PRINT:
"HE SAID / HE SAID" (2023 Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry) | New Letters, Volume 90, Numbers 1 & 2, Winter/Spring, 2024
"Dear Forgiveness, in the Second Year of the Pandemic, Pantone Announces Ultimate Gray Color of the Year" | In The Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy, Anthology, 2024
"A Record of Everything I’ve Outlived" | Invitation to Form: Epic Mix, Peach Mag Anthology edited by Julianne Neely, 2023
"The Yellow Jackets" | Special edition broadside designed and printed by Archie’s Press for The Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship, 2023
"[Numbers]" and "Reincarnation" collaboration with artist, Zeinab Saab | Escape Tunnels, Small Craft Advisory Press, 2023
"Longer, Love" | Meridians, Black Feminisms in the Caribbean and the United States: Representation, Rebellion, Radicalism, and Reckoning, 2022
"No Trees I Could Name" | Magma UK x Obsidian UK, Issue 82, 2022
"Glory to All Fleeting Things" | Index Press, Winter Issue: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, 2021
"As A Black Woman, Not Writing*" | Michigan Quarterly Review: Why We Write, audio available via MQR Sound, 2021
"Questions Asked to Me When I Was Ten" | You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, Anthology, 2021
"Glory to All Fleeting Things" (2020 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award Poetry Shortlist*) | Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual Anthology, 2021
"Glow" and "Why Are Black Women Attractive" | Two-Time VSC Broadside Competition Winner, 2020
"Date Night" | wildness, Omnibus 2015-19 Celebrate the first twenty issues of wildness with an omnibus edition featuring poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from the previous issues, 2019
"At Trader Joe's in South Pasadena" (2018 Knightville Poetry Contest Finalist*) | The New Guard, 2019
"Glow" and "Why Are Black Women Attractive" (2019 Pushcart Prize Nomination*) | Paper Darts, 2019
"Future Dated Eulogy for the Carefree" | Haunt Journal of Art, 2018
Where & When
EXHIBITIONS:
PAST
The Center for Afrofuturist Studies Ordinary Survival Film Festival | Featured Filmmaker
October 29th - November 12th, 2023 (Virtual) (EXTENDED!)
Affective Histories Group Exhibition | Featured Artist
November 18th - December 18th, 2021, Tuesdays - Saturdays 11am-6pm EST
Hesse Flatow, 508 West 26th Street, Suite 5G, Chelsea, NY
PANELS, PERFORMANCES & READINGS:
PAST
MQR Fall 2023 Transversions Launch & Reading | Featured Contributor
Friday, November 10th, 2023 7-830pm EST
Invitation to Form: Epic Mix Hybrid Launch Party | Featured Poet
Sunday, August 6th, 2023 3-5pm EST
The Poetry Project Presents S. Erin Batiste & Courtney Faye Taylor | Featured Poet
Monday, May 29th, 2023 8pm EST
St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003
Featuring guest introductions by Shayla Lawz and Ronaldo V. Wilson
Kolaj Institute Presents Artists in the Archives: Collage & Place As Archive | Participating Artist
Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 7pm EST
The Poetry Project 49th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon | Featured Poet
Sunday, January 1st, 2023 The Eighth Hour: 10-11pm EST
St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003
Meridians Volume 21 Celebration | Contributor
Thursday, December 15th, 2022 1pm PST | 4pm EST
2022 PEN Emerging Voices: The Final Reading | Fellow
Wednesday, October 26th, 2022 8-9pm EST
SWWIM Poetry Reading with S. Erin Batiste and Michael A de Armas | Featured Poet
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 7:30-9pm EST
Michigan Quarterly Review + Iowa Review AWP Offsite Joint Reading | Featured Poet
Thursday, March 24th, 2022 6:30-8pm EST
MilkBoy, 1100 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Pen + Brush Reads in Celebration of Women’s History Month + World Poetry Day | Featured Poet
Monday, March 21st, 2022 7-8:30pm EST
StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, Magma x Obsidian Issue 82 Showcase | Featured Poet
Sunday, March 13th, 2022 8:30am EST | 12:30pm GMT
Jack Straw Writers x Bushwick Book Club Seattle | Collaboration
S. Erin Batiste x Aleyanna Grae, January 2022
The Poetry Project’s 48th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon | Featured Poet
Saturday, January 1st, 2022, Entire Marathon 11am-Midnight EST
Affective Histories Poetry Reading & Artist Panel Discussion | Featured Poet & Artist
Saturday, November 20th, 2021 4pm EST
Hesse Flatow, 508 West 26th Street, Suite 5G, Chelsea, NY
LEAF Lit Live! Spoken Word Poetry Salon #6 | Emcee
Thursday, June 24th, 2021 4pm PST | 7pm EST
Pen + Brush International Virtual Poetry Festival | Featured Poet
Sunday, May 23rd, 2021 9am PST | 12pm EST
The Jack Straw Reading Series: Night 2 | Featured Poet
Friday, May 14th, 2021 7pm PST | 10pm EST
An Evening of Poetry & Conversation | Featured Poet
Vicksburg Cultural Arts Center, April 2021
S. Erin Batiste & Jordan Hamilton | Collaboration
Prairie Ronde at The Mill at Vicksburg, April 2021
"Glory to All Fleeting Things," "Future Dated Eulogy for the Carefree," "At Trader Joe’s in South Pasadena"
Sundress SAFTA Reading Series | Featured Poet
Wednesday, April 28th, 2021 4pm PST | 7pm EST
LEAF Lit Live! Spoken Word Poetry Salon #5 | Featured Poet
Thursday, April 22nd, 2021 4pm PST | 7pm EST
Wild and Precious Life Reading Series, You Don’t Have to Be Everything Launch | Featured Poet
Wednesday, April 21st, 2021 4:30pm PST | 7:30pm EST
Philadelphia Stories LitLife Poetry Festival, Crimmins & MCPL Reception | Featured Poet
Saturday, April 17th, 2021 1:30pm PST | 4:30pm EST
Good Words Presents: AWP Offsite POWER HOUR | Featured Poet
Sunday, March 7th, 2021 2pm PST | 5pm EST
Vermont Studio Center Presents: Writers on the Rise Reading Series | Featured Poet
Thursday, February 25th, 2021 4pm PST | 7 pm EST
Girlhood: New Beginnings | Featured Poet
Saturday, January 16th, 2021 3pm PST | 6pm EST
COUNTERpult: A Roots. Wounds. Words. End of Year Storyteller Showcase | Featured Poet
Saturday, December 12th, 2020 4pm PST | 7pm EST
Good Words with S. Erin Batiste & Z. Kennedy Lopez | Featured Poet
Sunday, September 27th, 2020 2pm PST | 5pm EST
Donations are not required to attend, but S. Erin Batiste is reading in support of, and asks if you appreciate her work and are able, that you consider donating to: The Loveland Foundation Therapy Fund for Black Women & Girls and HealHaus Therapy Fund
Girlhood Summer 2020: A Poetry Performance Series | Featured Poet
Saturday, July 18th, 2020 3pm PST | 6pm EST
Night Poems | Featured Poet
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020 5pm PST | 8pm EST
Pecha Kucha: Crosstown Arts Resident Artist Talk | 2020 Resident +Featured Poet
Thursday, March 12th, 2020 7-8pm
Crosstown Arts East Atrium, 1350 Concourse Avenue, Memphis, TN
The Poetics of the Visual: Leveraging the "Eye" and the "I" to Create Dynamic Poetry | Workshop
Visiting Poet & Teaching Artist
Monday, March 2nd, 2020
University of Tennessee Chattanooga, Art Department, Chattanooga, TN
Sacred Places Presents: Preparation and Protection, Journey to 2020 | Featured Poet
Saturday, October 5th, 2019 3-6pm
Invitation Only, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend: Radical Women Writers | Featured Poet
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019 8pm
Franklin Park, 618 St. Johns Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238
COUNTERpult: A Reading Showcase | Featured Poet
Friday, September 13th, 2019 8pm
Cafe con Libros, 724 Prospect Place, Brooklyn, NY 11216
Crush Reading Series #14 | Featured Poet
Saturday, September 7th, 2019 7:30-9:30pm
Woodbine, 1882 Woodbine St, Ridgewood, NY 11385
The Mastheads Summer Finale | 2019 Resident & Featured Poet
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019 7-8:30pm
Melville's Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA 01201
The Mastheads Kickoff Party | 2019 Resident & Featured Poet
Monday, July 1st, 2019 7-8:30pm
Hotel On North, 297 North Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201
Honey Dipped Productions Presents Girlhood | Featured Poet
Thursday, June 27th, 2019 7:30pm
Performance Space at Metro Baptist Church
410 West 40th Street, New York, NY
Secret Loft Showcase | Featured Poet
Thursday, June 20th, 2019 7:30-8pm: Open mic sign-up
8pm-10pm: Open mic and featured readers
Secret Loft, 137 West 14th Street, Buzzer SL, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10011
LINEAGE | Featured Poet with Cheryl Boyce-Taylor and t'ai freedom ford
Friday, June 7th, 2019 7-9pm
Wendy's Subway, 379 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Renegade Reading Series | Featured Poet
Friday, April 26th, 2019 Doors 7pm and Reading 7:30-8:30pm
Cafe con Libros, 724 Prospect Place, Brooklyn, NY 11216
Eclipsed Reading Series Presents: Awakening | Featured Poet
Thursday, April 18th, 2019 7-9pm
St. Mazie's Bar & Supper Club, 345 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Another Vision: A Night of Lit + Art | Featured Poet, Flash Reading + Small Talk
Friday, March 29th, 2019 8:30-11:30pm
Gather, 1733 SE 9th Avenue, Portland, OR 97214
Cave Canem at Brooklyn Museum First Saturdays | Featured Poet
Saturday, January 5th, 2019 7:30pm
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
Luce Center for American Art, 5th Floor
INTERVIEWS:
The PEN Ten: An Interview with the 2022 PEN Emerging Voices Fellows
https://pen.org/the-pen-ten-an-interview-with-the-2022-emerging-voices-fellows/
SWWIM Meet The Artist | Featured Poet
Thursday, April 14th, 2022 5-6pm EST
Jack Straw Writers SoundPages Interview with E.J. Koh, 2021
https://www.jackstraw.org/podcasts/soundpages/
Twice 5 Miles Radio Interview: "Play of the Duende" with James Navé
Aired Live on WPVMFM 103.7 AVL The Voice of Asheville
Sunday, April 11th, 2021 8am PST | 11am EST
Brooklyn Poets | Poet of the Week Feature, 2018
http://brooklynpoets.org/poet/s-erin-batiste/
Puerto del Sol | Black Voices Series, Three Poems +Interview, 2018
https://www.puertodelsol.org/single-post/2018/11/16/The-PdS-Black-Voices-Series-Presents-S-ERIN-BATISTE