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Diana Tokaji

Tokaji Award   Diana Tokaji  is a performance artist (London, SF, and Capital Fringe Festival award-winner) and the author of two books: SIX WOMEN IN A CELL, winner of the Best Indie Book Award for Nonfiction, 2021; and SURVIVING ASSAULT – Words that Rock & Quiet & Tell the Truth. (Next Generation Indie Book Finalist).
 
Awarded the Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes Poetry Prize judged by Richard Blanco in 2020, her essays and poems are found in The Quarry, Bellevue Literary Review, Tiferet, Author, The New Guard (2019 poetry finalist), Solstice Literary Magazine (2022 essay finalist), Bourgeon Literary, The Mid-Atlantic Review, Frontier Poetry (2024 tanka award-winner), and in parenting rags, humor anthologies, feminist presses, and a bus in Virginia that displays her 2023 winning poem. 
 
Forthcoming are her collections: “BOOK OF ESSAYS BEFORE I DIE,” and “SPOKE: Poems of Squid, Cellmates, Love.” 
 
Diana is a Certified Yoga Therapist supporting female survivors of assault and trauma. She values the accessibility and beauty of the Origami Micro-chapbooks more than ever at this time. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
 
 
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► Diana Tokaji's microchap & (selected) poems are available below. Download the single-page PDF by clicking the title.
 
  Origami Microchap with Selected Poems
The Way of Fruit and Snow  

 

 

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Cover Photo by Nancy J. Rubin

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Ripe

Today I want the softness to prevail,
to be weighed down with softness,
persimmons begging to fall, to be
locust snacks, squirrel food /
to be plucked.

 

Fruit

Now / here / I
hold ripe persimmon

high up in
two palms and

enter the world /
limping.

Diana Tokaji © 2024