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SELECTED WORKS & PUBLISHING

 

Poetry anchored in truth, cultural identity, and Black ancestral memory and movement

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Sugar Uncoated™: A to Z (In development | Forthcoming publication)

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Sugar Uncoated™: A to Z is an inaugural poetic work by Dr. Diedra Price that speaks truth to untruth through language, memory, and historical clarity. Moving across the alphabet as a guiding framework rather than a rigid form, the poem reflects on ancestry, resistance, and the enduring imprint of Black liberation across generations. Within its verses, ancestral bravery is held in reverence—courage sustained even in captivity, and resistance carried forward without surrender. The work invites reflection on what is remembered and what has been obscured, offering poetry as a site of reckoning, continuity, and cultural clarity that resists erasure.

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The poem situates Black history not as a narrative of deficiency or origin in bondage, but as a continuum shaped by knowledge, courage, and self-determination. Through carefully constructed language, Sugar Uncoated™: A to Z challenges dominant myths, reclaims cultural memory, and affirms poetry as both literary art and a tool of public thought.

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Selected audio excerpt, read by the author.​

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A standalone book edition is currently in development.

Her Sugar Is Too Sweet for Lover is an original poem by Dr. Diedra Price that explores love as discernment, boundary, and responsibility. Rooted in ancestral memory and historical clarity, the work examines intimacy, agency, and self-worth without blame or sentimentality. The poem is part of the Sugar Uncoated™ Uni-verse and is shared through curated author engagements.

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Selected audio excerpt, read by the author.

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You See What I See was written in direct conversation with See Me, an artwork by Dellis Frank. Writing from within a world marked by presence, dignity, and splendor, Dr. Diedra Price explores how criminalization functions as subterfuge—reducing people, histories, and communities to preserve power across political, judicial, and social systems. The poem does not seek recognition; it asserts what already exists—complete, intact, and irreducible—affirming that humanity is neither conditional nor negotiable.​

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Selected audio excerpt, read by the author.​

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Pretty by Nature is a lyrical meditation on beauty, individuality, and presence, rendered through verses that move between visibility and shadow. In the audio presentation, Dr. Diedra Price gives voice to the poem’s stalked and shadowed dimensions—where beauty is not simply admired, but watched, constrained, and interpreted under external gaze.

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Selected audio excerpt, read by the author.​

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