Poetry by Celeste Lawson

Celeste Lawson’s poetry is directly affected by her passions for dance and music. Her poetry collection, I Was Born This Way, reflects her encounters with women from around the world when she traveled to Beijing to a United Nations World Conference on Women.

Lawson has been recognized as Erie County’s Poet-of-the-Month as nominated by the Urban Libraries Foundation, American Academy of Poets, and Buffalo and Erie County Library. As Poet-of-the-Month she read at Buffalo’s Downtown Public Library accompanied by a professional jazz trio. She has frequently recited her poetry with the Buffalo Jazz Composers Workshop.

Lawson is known in the Western New York as writer, teacher, editor, speaker and workshop leader. She has been published in anthologies sponsored by Earth’s Daughters, a feminist collective, A Celebration of Western New York Poets, and A Flash of Dark.

Her expertise has been most recently acknowledged by a grant from the Multi-Arts Production Fund to produce original works incorporating poetry including spoken word, essays, dance and music with the theme of Human Trafficking to be produced during National Women’s History Month on the Buffalo State College Campus.