Poet and educator Vicki Hudspith was born in picturesque Winterset, Iowa. Her latest collection of poetry is in the form of a spoken word cd URBAN VOODOO (available from www.spdbooks.org). She is the recipient of the Fund for Poetry award, was named in Outstanding Young Women in America (1982) and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize for Poetry three times. Her poetry is widely published in both print and on-line magazines, and in Best American Poetry 2005. She has two previous collections of poetry, White and Nervous and Limousine Dreams. She has served as President of the Artistic Board of Directors of The Poetry Project in New York City for twelve years. She is writer-in-residence for both Teachers & Writers Collaborative and Urban Word in New York City.

In 1982 she directed two plays for Eye and Ear Theater, a collaborative theater of poets and visual artists: The Heroes by John Ashbery with sets by Jane Freilicher and Shopping and Waiting by James Schuyler with sets by Alex Katz. She has appeared on radio and television. With Madeleine Keller she edited the anthology, KNOCK KNOCK A Funny Anthology by Serious Writers, featuring the work of over 100 writers and visual artists. She designed Hearts In Space by Maureen Owen for the Kulchur Foundation and designed Aerial an anthology of poetry edited by Edwin Denby with duo prints by Yvonne Jacquette. Her poems were included in Out Of This World, edited by Anne Waldman (Crown Publishers) and Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets, (Melville House), and the online anthology, 100 Poets For Peace. She has performed with musicians in Berkeley, New Orleans, Florida, New Hampshire and New York.

In 2003 she collaborated and performed with Bob Holman and Jackie Sheeler in the Wall to Wall Joni Mitchell festival. Also in 2003, she performed with Anne Waldman and Bob Holman in the John Kruth production, Imagine No Handguns tribute to John Lennon, raising money for the removal of handguns from the streets of New York City. Vicki Hudspith resides in New York City.

Urban Voodoo: A Review