Selected Work
Manuscript Publications
motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life (poetry collection, Action Books, 2023)
Poetry as Spellcasting, (co-edited anthology of essays, North Atlantic Books, 2023)
Oracle: a Cosmology (chapbook, Honeysuckle Press, 2018)
Other Publications
“Healer, How Come They Call You […]”( July 2026, Kweli Journal)
“fragments salvaged […],” (July 2024, Academy of American Poets)
“mama-n-em, starstruck and moon-stricken,” (July 2024, Poetry Daily)
“supplication after endometriosis episode,” (Summer 2024, Spoon River Poetry Review)
“snapshot: mason jar of macon, ga dirt,” (Summer 2024, Spoon River Poetry Review)
“schooling,” (Summer 2024, Spoon River Poetry Review )
“tangle of twilight,” (May 2023, Burnaway)
“our own names,” Academy of American Poets, Poem-a-Day January 2023
“the portal appears” (Winter 2021, Southern Cultures)
“we ask mama-n-em, ‘where is the motherworld?’” (September 2020, The Quarry)
“amy, thank you for many times” (July 2020, Carolina Quarterly)
“dispatches from now/here” (July 2020, Carolina Quarterly)
“a prophet-mother’s sermon on the afterlife” (July 2020, Carolina Quarterly)
“mama-n-em, starstruck and moon-stricken” (July 2020, EcoTheo Review)
“Six of Swords” (March 2020, Obsidian)
“what is a ritual with no return?” (March 2020, Obsidian)
“the future is un-settled” (March 2020, Obsidian)
“how we got our blues-tongue” (January 2020, Poetry)
“we ask mama-n-em, ‘why do you study astrology?” (July 2019, Scalawag)
“apocalypso song 33| a prophecy of care” (July 2019, Scalawag)
“mapmaking”(May 2019, Frontier Poetry)
“dna is just anotha theory for reincarnation […]” (January 2018, Winter Tangerine Review)
“prophecy for when you try to return” & other poems (September 2017, The Wanderer)
“origin story” (June 2016, Narrative Northeast)
Interviews| Other Media| Collaborations
Destiny Hemphill|Oracle: a Cosmology—an excerpt & interview
“‘Where Does it Hurt?’: A Guided Meditation for Grief Over Injustice”
written & recorded by Destiny Hemphill with the support of the Center for Black, Brown, & Queer+ Studies
a dance film collaboration choreographed & directed by Elise Logan
poetry & sound design by Destiny Hemphill
cinematography by Guy DeLancey
lighting design by Tricia Toliver
editing by Deja Cobb