Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). A Pushcart nominee with a M.F.A. in creative writing from the New School, she has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, Poets House, MacDowell, and the Vermont Studio Center among others. Her poem "Things I Carry Into the World" was recently made into a film by Motionpoems, a organization dedicated to video poetry. A winner of the 2016 Lascaux Prize for Collected Poetry and recipient of a 2017 Barbara Memorial Fund Award for Poetry, her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day Series, African American Review, Callaloo, Muzzle Magazine, Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. At MacDowell, she worked on her in-progress second collection of poetry, tentatively titled No Sweet Without Brine. The book will serve as a medical prescription for little black girls.
Cynthia Manick
Studios
Chapman
Cynthia Manick worked in the Chapman studio.
Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…