Chip Williford
chipwillifordpoetlaureate@gmail.com
EDUCATION Certificate In Theology Interdenominational Theology Center - Atlanta, GA A.A.S. Radio And Television Production, Suffolk County Community College - Selden, NY, May 2014, Sigma Summa Cum Laude, Sigma Chi Eta, Phi Theta Kappa AZN Vice President of Service
PRESS: INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES June 27th, 2024 – Chip Williford and Maggie Bloomfield of Poetry Street join WLIW-FM Heart of The East End Gianna Volpe in WLIW-FM studio ahead of Poetry Street’s 10th bday OCTOBER 23, 2023 | WLIW FM | PODCAST Chip Williford joins Gianna Volpe on the WLIW-FM Heart of The East End Monday Meditation Poetry Street Riverhead Free Library. June 20th, 2022 Gianna Volpe on the WLIW-FM Heart of The East End.– Dr. James Banks; Brenda Simmons; Chip Williford and Takudzwa Chikepe June 24th, 2021 Chip Williford and Maggie Bloomfield joins Gianna Volpe on the WLIW-FM Heart of The East End February 4, 2021 Gianna Volpe on the WLIW-FM Heart of The East End invited poets Suzanne Cade, Lois Moses, Helen Higginbotham and Chip Williford onto the show. In celebration of the last show of Black History Month, RiverheadLocal COMMUNITY NEWS By Denise Civiletti Sep 26, 2020, Zoom into Poetry Street: monthly open-mic venue goes virtual in pandemic RiverheadLOCAL Upcoming Jun 22, 2024 Poetry Street to celebrate 10th anniversary RiverheadLocal COMMUNITY NEWS By Denise Civiletti Jun 27, 2024 Poetry Street, ‘where everyone has a voice,’ turns 10: Its founders and hosts reflect on the journey THE SAILORS REVIEW 82nd ISSUE 24 December 2024. ARTIST LOUNGE III CHIP WILLIFORD THE BEAUTY & POWER OF POETRY using poetry to add on the cultural landscape of a people interviewed by Violin Chipamaunga “Idea of America” THE SAILORS REVIEW 59TH ISSUE 12 JUNE 2022 A Conversation With Chip Williford, Interviewed by sibuco Word In Verse III Poetry Analysis “TWO FACED” THE SAILORS REVIEW 58TH ISSUE 08 MAY 2022 Words in Verse III “To My Siblings”
WORKS PUBLISHED IN ANTHOLOGIES and other Published Works: “From That Moment On” SBC Magazine Volume Four Issue One January 1995 “I Got Your Mail” SBC Magazine May/June 1996 issue “Thoughts of a Mongoose” Nassau County Poet Laureate Society Review Vol VIII, 2020 “Vote For Our Lives” Moonstone Arts The Struggle For Liberty Vol.2 “America, I See” Performance Poets Association Literary Review Volume 25 “Tap, Tap, Tap” Performance Poets Association Literary Review Volume 26 “To My Siblings” Sailors Review Issue #58, May 2022 “Two Faced” Sailors Review Issue #59, June 2023 “Uncles Last Rites” Suffolk County Poetry Review 2023 “Borrowed Inspiration” CEED’s Sculpture On The Trail 2023 “Naturally” CEED’s Sculpture On The Trail 2024 “Of Love, Loss and Life” Poetry Bay Long Island Quarterly Winter 2023-2024 “Blue Muse” Poetry Bay Long Island Quarterly Winter 2024-2025 “Salty Growls “ Poetry X-Hunger - Hunger Poems 8-1-2023 “Left Blank” Poetry X-Hunger - Hunger Poems 12-1-2024 “In Between” All The Men Came and Danced, A Poetry Collection of Men’s Voices 2025 “The Beast” Some of The Beast Long Island Poetry 2024 presented by Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository “Idea of America” Sailors Review, Issue #82, December 2024 “Shame Is Not Mine To Own-From A Child’s Voice” Bards Annual 2024 A Poetry Anthology FEATURED APPEARANCES: Alive on 25 Summer Street Festival - Arts Stage at East End Arts Riverhead, NY 8-10-2017 Anthology Of A Minority Poetry Recital hosted by Dr. Love. 2-24-2021 Poetry Street - 6-26-21 Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center Summer Poetry Festival 7-17-2021 Peconic Landing For Better For Verse 11-19-2021 Moonstone Arts Center’s Poetry Reading Struggle For Liberty 7-3-22 Poets in Port Coalition Ecumenical Lay Council Pantry Northport, NY 12-2-2022 CEED Sculpture On The Trail 8-19-2023 Event - “Borrowed Inspiration” - artist Ted Thirby Poetry Series Jack Jack Coffee House - Babylon NY 12-7-2023 Soulful Sundown - Unitarian Universalist of Southold Poetry Event 5-25-2024 CEED Sculpture On The Trail 8-17-2024 Event - “Naturally” - artist Gregory Corn CAPA NEWS -Summer 2024 ELIJA Farm in Huntington Station - Poetry Reading to celebrate Juneteenth and National Caribbean American Heritage Month Tribute to Jupiter Hammon presented by Paula Curci and Chip Williford. Kick out event Featuring Chip Williford and Judy Turek Long Island Poetry and Literature Repository -Bohemia, NY 9-19-2024 Poetry Place Poetry Pairs Poetry Reading Series Fall 2024/Winter 2025 Poets Building Bridges Season Four 4-4-25 Poets from Riverhead, Shades Green, Sweden Village Poetry, All Souls Church 5-10-25 From Near and Afar 5-19-25 All Souls Second Saturdays Poetry Reading 6-9-25 Oceanside Summer Gazebo reading 6-16-25 Scene 2nd Anniversary 6-22-25 Green Space 7-1-25 Sculpture on the Trail 8-16-25
SPECIAL SPEAKING EVENTS Police reform Town Hall Speaker 12-1-2020 and 12-15-2020 Suffolk County Community College - RTV Speaker 2-8-2021 Celebrating Black History Guest Speaker “The Role Of Entertainment in Building Resilience Through Turbulent Times Sponsored by Suffolk County Community College 2-25-21 P&G Specialties Presents Words of Expression Spoken Word Event 10-30-2022 Bellport Brewery, Bellport, NY Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone Office of Minority Affairs, African American Advisory Board “The Black Renaissance Era”
Black History Month Program at Lee Dennison Bldg. Hauppaugue NY 2-16-2023 Spread The Love Fundraiser Angels of Long Island - Riverhead plush Hall 4-29-2023 NAACP Juneteenth Celebration 7-17-2023 Poetry Class Speaker at Queens College Kelly Hall Room 419- Vivett Dukes Youth participatory Action Research Class 10-18-2023 NAACP - E.L.I.B. Jazz Brunch 7-20-24 P&G Specialties Presents Words of Expression Spoken Word Event 10-30-2022 Bellport Brewery, Bellport, NY Spread The Love Fundraiser Angels of Long Island - Riverhead plush Hall 4-29-2023
WORKSHOP Poetry Writing Workshop Facilitated by J R Turek Farmingdale Public Library 10-4-2023
OPEN MICS Bowery Poetry Club Stark Harlem Nights Nuyorican Poets Cafe Parkside Lounge East Meadow Public Library West Hampton Coffee House 9-16-2017 Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center Summer Poetry Festival 7-17-2021 All Souls Church Second Saturdays Poetry Reading 2-12-22 Creativity for the Community 12-1-2022 SpoFest Poetry and Prose 12-2022 PPA Levittown Library 3-18-2023 Sachem Public Library 5-22-2023 Dog Eared Book Shop 2-7-2024 9-22-24 Walt Whitman Birthplace - Bards Annual 2024 Book Launch 9-25-24 Long Island University Post - Some of the Best long Island Poetry 2024 10-21-24 Levittown Town Hall - Long Island Sound Anthology 2023 Book Launch 3-20-25 LILR - Bohemia, NY - All The Men Came Anthology Book Launch 4-6-25 Long Beach Poetry Festival 5-10-25 Dog Eared Book Shop
COMMUNITY SERVICE Phi Theta Kappa - AZN chapter -Vice President of Service “2013-14” Poetry Street and Poetry Street On The Road - Director and cohost NAACP Eastern Long Island Branch - Executive Board Member, and Scholarship Committee Chairman - NAACP/Suffolk County Community College Endowment Scholarship Multicultural Solidarity Long Island - Friendship Circle Facilitator Reading Reparations Study Group participant Suffolk County Police Reform Town Hall Speaker Northport Arts Coalition member and exhibit sponsor