Publishing credits
“Painting Flowers at a Time Like This” after Hanif Abdurraquib, EcoTheo Review, Nov. 2024
"Is it too late to love you?," Portrait of New England Literary Magazine, Vol. 5, July 2024
"From the wreckage," Trolley Literary Journal, (Read Here)
"Waiting on the Wind," Porter Gulch Review (2020)
"Magpie," The Time for Reckoning
"The Lectern," "Red Leaf Tree in Summer" "Dragon Breath"
Scarlet: A Literary Blog, Jaded Ibis Press
"Broke just like that" after Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that" Ink & Nebula
"Dear Anacia" Real Black Grandmothers
All Videos
All Videos
D Colin at Zankel Music Center
From Behind the Microphone | D. Colin
Fish Market residency, art, poetry & healing
D. Colin on Working Through the Issues of Identity with Art | AHA! A House for Arts
Poetry Performance History
2025
The Loomis Chaffee School Jazz Poetry Night, Windsor, CT (also in 2023, 2022, 2020)
MLK Saratoga’s Dr. King Weekend Kickoff Celebration, Saratoga Springs, NY
2024
Lucid Voices, Schenectady, NY
Capital Region Chamber DEI Summit, Albany, NY (also in 2023)
Our Lodge Foundation Juneteenth Celebration, Saratoga Springs
“Impression” Spring Street Gallery, Saratoga Springs
“Taking a Stand” Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
Oakwood Community Center Black History Celebration, Troy, NY
2023
Guest host at The Poet’s Passage, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
“Empowered by Poetry,” Hart Cluett Museum, Troy, NY
Opening Act for Tank & the Bangas, Arthur Zankel Music Center, Saratoga Springs
Poetz Realm, Bridgeport, CT
“Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop,” Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
Art & Stories, YWCA-GCR, Troy, NY
“Sacred Space” Art Installation & Poetry Reading, Mini Moca 518, Delmar, NY
The Moth, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, NY
Womxn of the World Poetry Slam Finalist, Baltimore, MD (also competed in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017)
Dewey’s Lounge, Springfield, MA
Capital District Writing Project Midwinter Retreat Keynote Speaker, Albany, NY
MLK Saratoga event, “Greatest Love of All: Roots & Revolution of Black Women in Pop,” Opening poem and moderator for Danyel Smith, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs
2022
Stiletto Brunch Keynote Speaker, Troy, NY
Albany Symphony “Composing Acts of Resistance,” Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
Featured Poet at Nuyorican Poets Café, New York, NY (also 2013, 2014, & 2021)
Pearl Side Community Arts Festival, Capital Rep Theater Poetry Slam (Host), Albany, NY
Love Jones Experience, The Russell, Hartford, CT
Walkin’ with WordxWord, The Mount, Lenox, MA
“Black Bird: a multimedia art experience,” Arts Center of the Capital Region Artist Residency exhibit and performance, The Fish Market Project, Troy, NY
Emma Willard School
“Keep It S.N.A.P.P.Y,” Brooklyn, NY
“Poetic Injustice,” Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy NY
“Labor and Community United for Social Justice” MLK Celebration, Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY
Featured Poet Busboys & Poets, 14 & V and 450 K Street, Washington, D.C. (also 2021)
2021
Poetz Realm Showcase, Café de Luxe, Fort Myers, FL
BNRC Poetry Reading, Old Mill Trail, Berkshire, MA
Influence a Life Underground Individual Slam, Bridgeport, CT
A Virtual Evening with Natalie Merchant, Opening Act
2020
“Together We Rebuild,” YouthFX and Project TRY, Albany, NY
Amplified Voices Mural Reveal, Albany NY
Voices of Herstory, Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY (virtual)
Troy Summer Square, Make It Upstate Poetry Series, Troy, NY
Walkin’ with WordxWord, The Mount, Lenox, MA
Front Parlor Series, Weathered Wood, Troy, NY
Rally for Black Lives, Riverfront Park, Troy, NY (11,000 in attendance)
Café Lena, Saratoga Springs, NY
YWCA-GCR Mission Series presented by Nacy Warner Associates, (virtual)
Womxn of the World Poetry Slam, Dallas TX
Lizard Lounge Slam Champion, Boston MA
Peabody Invitational Slam, Yale University
MLK Week Jazz Poetry Night, The Loomis Chafee School, Windsor, CT