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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 and elsewhere. A former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, she has featured on hundreds of stages from The Apollo to The White House. Currently, she is performing her one-woman show, Esto No Tiene Nombre (work-in-progress), which centers the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders.

" Most of what I've learned about being a leader has come from growing up playing team sports, specifically basketball. I thought that my life as an athlete and my work as poet were two separate chapters, but I've realized in the past few years that they have played pivotal roles that often speak to each other. Sports taught me about the power of the collective and leading by example. Poetry taught me how to listen. I use all of these lessons to empower my communities and those around me, especially those who have been silenced."