with music from the outset of her poetry career— those initial collaborations beginning with musicians she met as a member of the Black Rock Coalition. Morris' work is embraced by slam and performance poets as well as the Language Poets, a contemporary poetic avant-garde. She is featured, for example, on Charles Bernstein's Close Listening radio program and was featured at a 2008 conference on Conceptual Poetics alongside Bernstein, Marjorie Perloff, Craig Dworkin and others. Morris also received the Creative Capital Performing Arts award in the year 2000. In addition to being an experimental poet, Morris writes poetry in conventional forms and nonce forms. Morris is known as a sound artist and specialist in sound poetry as well as an occasional theatrical performer. (She is also a singer with composer/musician Elliott Sharp's band, Terraplane, and her eponymous band.) Morris was an early collaborator with Ralph Lemon for his Geography Trilogy. Her work was featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Morris has taught in several institutions of higher education. She is the first tenured African-American poet of the Iowa Writers' Workshop after serving as the program's inaugural distinguished visiting professor of poetry. Creative and academic fellowships Morris was the 2007-2008 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, was a 2018 Master Artist of the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the 2018-2019 Woodberry Poetry Room Fellow at Harvard University as well as resident at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Grants Morris has received include fellowships of the New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative Capital and the Asian Cultural Council. In 2021, Morris received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry. Consultant, workshop leader, panelist Morris leads workshops on creative writing, voice and planning consultations for activists, artists, youth, women, postgraduate students and underserved communities as well as private and non-profit groups. She is in demand as a panelist, respondent and guest artist on panels, serving for prestigious educational organizations including Modern Language Association, Associated Writing Program, Columbia University, Princeton University, MIT, Pomona College, Dartmouth College, Smith College, University of Arizona, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Creative Capital Foundation, the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, the Cave Canem Foundation, and The Pew Center for Arts and Culture, among others. Morris is a consultant for educational and arts organizations. She has served on board of trustees/board