Desireé Dallagiacomo is an American spoken word poet and teaching artist. She is of European and Choctaw descent, and she is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Her first book of poetry, SINK, was published by Button Poetry in March 2019. Before publishing her first full-length collection, her poems amassed millions of views on Youtube. Her poems, "Thighs Say" “Real Sex Tips.” and “Shave Me” among others were first published by

Button Poetry Button Poetry is a Minneapolis-based poetry company and independent publisher of performance poetry. They are known for their viral videos of slam poetry performances, including a performance of "OCD" by Neil Hilborn that the Knight Foundation ca ...

. She is a

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

Nominee. She founded the writing retreat The Heart of It.

Awards

* 2013 Southwest Shootout Regional Slam Champion * University of New Orleans recipient of the Ryan Chigazola Poetry Scholarship. * 2014 Individual

National Poetry Slam The National Poetry Slam (NPS) is a performance poetry competition where teams from across the United States, Canada, and, occasionally, Europe and Australia, participate in a large-scale poetry slam. The event occurs in early August every year and ...

ranked 3rd * 2014 National Poetry Slam, 3rd place with Slam New Orleans * 2014 Pushcart Prize nominee * 2015

Women Of the World Poetry Slam The Women of the World Poetry Slam (WoWPS) is an annual poetry slam put on by Poetry Slam, Inc. The tournament features individual slam poets from around the world that "live their lives as women" competing to be the highest ranked woman poet in th ...

ranked 3rd * 2017 Brave New Voices International Poetry Slam Champion (Head Coach)

Selected performances

* “Thighs Say,“ 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam Finals in Phoenix, Arizona * "Shave Me," 2015 Women Of The World Poetry Slam * (with Kaycee Filson) "Real Sex Tips," 2014 National Poetry Slam * "Drop Off Lines"

Publications

Books

* 2012 The Year of the Institution, Next Left Press * 2014 Dimly Lit, Next Left Press *2019 Sink, Button Poetry

Early life

Dallagiacomo is originally from

Chico, California Chico ( ; Spanish for "little") is the most populous city in Butte County, California. Located in the Sacramento Valley region of Northern California, the city had a population of 101,475 in the 2020 census, reflecting an increase from 86,18 ...

but moved to

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Baton Rouge ( ; ) is a city in and the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it is the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana's most populous parish—the equivalent of counties i ...

in 2010.

References

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