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Rooted in oral tradition, Chamorrita Song pays homage to Black and Chamorro cultures, honoring the artistic expressions that these communities have created to reconcile lifetimes of imposed trauma. Bearing witness to these many narratives, Williams intertwines spoken word poetry and gospel music with Chamorro storytelling, weaving together the nuanced histories of queer, Black, and Indigenous existence and literature.
In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora. The poem "fa’ñague /fuh-nyah-gwee/" by Danielle P. Williams was featured.
A finalist for the Button Poetry Chapbook Contest, and was selected as runner-up from the Backbone Press 3rd Annual Chapbook Competition. With nods to poetic legends like Amiri Baraka and Lucille Clifton, Who All Gon’ Be There? tackles Blackness and womanhood with a commanding, often searing voice.
An ode to the art that lives within yourself. It is a charge to life. A way of saying, there is art in you, and nobody can take that away.
Indiana Review, "When people tell me that dancing hula makes you exotic," print
PRISM International, "[but do you really like black people?]," print
The Pinch, "Black Body as [ ] Bird," print
My Sister's Closet, "A Crystal Stair"
​Third Point Press, "Tano I' Man Chamorro"
​Praxis Center, "Undertakers" and "Toy Story Memorial" ​
​Scalawag, "Wet Dogs"
All The Sins, "The Reckoning"
Best Micro-fiction 2022 Nomination, ANMLY
Runner-Up, Backbone Press 3rd Annual Chapbook Contest
Finalist, Button Poetry 2021 Chapbook Contest
Best of the Net 2021 Nomination, Kissing Dynamite
Best New Poets 2021 Nomination, Foothill Poetry Journal
2021 Langston Hughes Fellow, Palm Beach Poetry Festival
Workshop Fellow, Open Mouth Poetry Retreat
2020 Workshop Fellow, The Watering Hole
Pushcart Prize Nomination 2020, Foothill Poetry Journal
Finalist, Arts & Letters Rumi Prize for Poetry
Pushcart Prize Nomination 2020, Sinking City
Ninth Letter 2020 Literary Award Winner in Poetry
2020 Virginia Downs Poetry Award
2019 MFA Travel Fellow, Alan Cheuse Writers Center