Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees

Nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work Poetry, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees is a cross-generational volume of poetry, featuring the work of 50 thought provoking and inspirational women writers, lyricists and spoken word artists from diverse cultures and backgrounds. Check the Rhyme features eighteen chapters, revealing poetry that is a representation of both emerging and established poets who write on a variety of themes including: beauty and self esteem; empowerment for youth; hip hop culture; love relationships; the memory and meaning of home; the state of our society; Hurricane Katrina s impact; artistic and political contributions of legendary artists; healing from violence; family and motherhood; jazz music; and spirituality. The pages of Check the Rhyme are filled with insights, experiences and challenges of women who walk the warrior path, intending to shape the world with the passion that fuels their dreams.

DuEwa Frazier is a writer, speaker, journalist, educator and award nominated poet. DuEwa is the author of a teen novel, Deanne in the Middle (2014) Goddess Under the Bridge (2013), Ten Marbles and a Bag to Put Them In: Poems for Children (2010), Stardust Tracks on a Road (2005), and Shedding Light From My Journeys (2002). She is the editor and publisher of the NAACP Image Award nominated (in Outstanding Literary Work Poetry) anthology, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees (July 2006).Check the Rhyme also received nominations from Writers Digest Publishing Award and African American Literary Award Show. She founded Lit Noire Publishing in 2002.

DuEwa has been called "a gifted and conscious" performing poet. Her poetry has been published in Eleven Eleven Literary Journal, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, Poetry in Performance, Essence Magazine, Reverie Journal, Kweli Journal, Tidal Basin Review, Poetry In Performance, Drumvoices Revue, Signifyin' Harlem, Black Arts Quarterly, X Magazine and other publications. In 2005 she featured in the documentary film Rhyme and Reason.She has been a featured author and speaker at arts venues, conferences, schools and colleges including NCTE CCC Conference, Temple University, University of Pennsylvania s Kelly Writers House, Harlem Book Fair, Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Public Library, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Bohemian Caverns (DC), La Pena Cultural Arts Center (Berkeley, CA), Charis Books (Atlanta), Legacy Books (St. Louis), Howard University Bookstore, The Yale Club, Hue Man Bookstore, Indianapolis Book Fest, Capital Book Fest, The Shrine, Bowery Poetry Club, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, CUNY Poetry Festival and many others.

DuEwa earned the B.A. degree in English at Hampton University, the M.Ed. degree in Curriculum and Teaching at Fordham University and the M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing at The New School. She earned the the Ed.M. degree in Educational Leadership at Columbia University.