DENICE FROHMAN

Award-winning
Poet & Performer







“Esto No Tiene Nombre is a one-woman show written & performed by Denice Frohman uplifting the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders.”
— PHOTO: Workshop performance presented by Journey Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
 
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ABOUT

DENICE FROHMAN is a poet and performer from New York City. She has received support from The Pew Center for the Arts, Baldwin for the Arts, CantoMundo, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Poem-A-Day (The Academy of American Poets), The BreakBeat Poets: LatiNext, Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color, The Rumpus and elsewhere. A former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, she’s featured on hundreds of stages from The Apollo to The White House. Currently, in addition to performing poetry, she is touring her one-woman show, Esto No Tiene Nombre, which uplifts the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders. She lives in Philadelphia.

 
 

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EVENTS

October 29-30 - Adirondack Center for Writing (Saranac Lake, NY)

January 7 - Macomb Community College (Warren, MI)

February 1-5 - Achieving The Dream Conference 2027 (Columbus, OH)

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PERFORMANCES | KEYNOTES | WORKSHOPS | COMMISSIONS

her accent is a stubborn compass /

always pointing her towards home

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