Edythe
Rodriguez
Edythe Rodriguez is an Upper Darby poet and copywriter, hardcore Bustelo drinker and non-violent Beyhive member. She loves neo-soul, battle rap, and long walks through old poetry journals.
Edythe studied creative writing and Africology at Temple University where she developed both an Afrocentric writing praxis and the urge to amplify the full range and personality of Black language.
Edythe is the winner of the 2022 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest, the 2022 Sandy Crimmins Poetry Prize from Philadelphia Stories and the 2021 Margaret Reid Prize from Winning Writers. Edythe has received fellowships from PEN America, The Hurston/Wright Foundation, The Watering Hole, and Brooklyn Poets. Her work is published in Obsidian, The Offing, Torch Literary Arts and elsewhere.
“Dissolve” — The Offing
“The Spook Who Poemed by Her Altar and Not at the Feet of Academia” — Torch Literary Arts
“afro/latin/a” — Winning Writers
"Mama & the Clothesline / Tuckahoe 2001" — Philadelphia Stories
“poem for my people” — Moko Magazine: caribbean arts and letters
“greens” — Philadelphia Stories
selected poems.
WINNER
OF THE BUTTON POETRY
CHAPBOOK CONTEST
fellowships + honors.
2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Finalist
2023 Nancy Craig Blackburn ‘71 Fellow
2022 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow
2022 Poetry Fellow — The Hurston/Wright Foundation
2022 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest — Winner
2022 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize, Runner Up — Prism International
2022 Philadelphia Stories Sandy Crimmins Poetry Prize – Winner
2022 Great River Review Pink Poetry Prize – Finalist
2022 Poetry Contest, Finalist — Snarl Journal
2022 Langston Hughes Fellow — Palm Beach Poetry Festival
2021 Winning Writers’ Margaret Reid Poetry Prize – Winner
2021 Pink Poetry Prize, Finalist — Great River Review
2021 Poetry Prize, Finalist — Puerto del Sol
2021 Previously Published Poem Prize, Longlist — Palette Poetry
2021 Fall Poetry Fellow — Brooklyn Poets
2020 Poetry Fellow — The Watering Hole
press.
services.
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Edythe has taught poetry with Temple University, Blue Stoop, Barrelhouse Mag, Tiny Spoon and other literary orgs
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Edythe is now accepting bookings for her chapbook tour and has featured at Dodge Poetry Festival, Pecola Breedlove and the Freedom Party, and other stages in Philadelphia.
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Edythe has served as a Poetry Editor for Heritage Journal and Voicemail Poems and as a reader for Palette Poetry, Cleaver Magazine, Mighty Writers and elsewhere.