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MaKshya Tolbert

MaKshya Tolbert practices poetry and placemaking in Virginia, where her grandmother raised her. She is the 2025 Art in Library Spaces Artist-in-Residence at the University of Virginia, and co-stewards Fernland Studios, an open-ended studio insistent on rest, rejuvenation, and reciprocity as a core compositional practice. Tolbert was the 2024 New City Arts Fellowship Guest Curator, and served as 2024-25 Chair of the Charlottesville Tree Commission. She has received fellowship and residency support from the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission, New City Arts, Community of Writers, and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. Her recent poetry and prose can be found at Poem-a-Day, Emergence Magazine, West Branch, Poets for Science, and Ran Off With the Star Bassoon. She holds degrees from Stanford University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Shade is a place is her first book. In her free time, she is elsewhere—a place Eddie S. Glaude Jr. calls “that physical or metaphorical place that affords the space to breathe."
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Tue Nov 04 | 04:45 PM
Welcome Gallery
114 3rd St NE
Charlottesville, VA 22902
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Sun Nov 09 | 07:00 AM
Powell's Books
1005 W Burnside St.
Portland, OR 97209
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Sat Nov 15 | 07:00 PM
NEW DOMINION BOOKSHOP
404 E MAIN ST
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22902-5527
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POLITICS AND PROSE AT UNION MARKET
1324 4TH ST NE
WASHINGTON, DC 20002-7002
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