DuEwa

Poet, Actress and Author, DuEwa M. Frazier, began making her mark as a spoken word artist, in Summer 1999 when she featured at the Multi-State Poetry Slam in Philadelphia, PA. Since then DuEwa has been called a “gifted and conscious performing poet." In 2005 she featured in the documentary film “Rhyme and Reason." She has featured on Oxygen Network, Manhattan Neighborhood Cable Network and in many other shows. In November 2007 she performed in the play "Ice Floes" playing the lead female role of "Eunice" at The Looking Glass Theatre. She received an Audience Award for Best Actress for her performance as "Eunice."

Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, DuEwa has featured at slam venues, colleges, theaters, festivals, public schools, museums and other institutions including: Bowery Poetry Club and the famed Nuyorican Poet’s Café (NYC), Bohemian Caverns (DC), Howard University, Legacy Bookstore & Café (St. Louis), Temple University, October Gallery (Philadelphia), Indianapolis Book Festival, West Virginia Wesleyan College, and many more!

As a speaker, she has featured on panels (Temple University’s Sisters Defining Sisters Conference, African Voices Magazine’s Cultural Circle Conference and Sista Cypher: Battling a Bad Rap Hip Hop Panel) relating to self-publishing and hip hop media. Her reach as a dynamic artist is also felt through literature and publishing as she is Founder/CEO of Lit Noire Publishing and the producer of Word Canvas music and poetry events in New York City. Frazier is the author of two favorably reviewed volumes of poetry: Shedding Light From My Journeys and Stardust Tracks on a Road. She is the Editor of the 2007 NAACP Image Award Nominated anthology, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees (July 2006), featuring the work of fifty internationally/nationally known women poets. Her poetry has featured in publications such as Essence Magazine, Drumvoices Revue, Poetry Ink Anthology, X Magazine and others.

She earned the B.A. degree in English from Hampton University and the M.S.Ed. degree from Fordham University. She uses her latest publication Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees as a literacy tool to inspire young girls to write, as well as a means to merge hip hop with traditional poetry text in the classroom. DuEwa is the creator and facilitator of “Girls in the City: Creative, Self Aware, and Responsible” workshops for teen girls in New York City.

As a playwright and actress, Frazier wrote and performed her first one-woman dramatic play in 2004 at The Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe, titled “Flash Femininity” a play which presents themes and lessons relating to: women in hip hop, community upliftment and cultural art. She resides in New York.