Madison Mae Parker
Madison Mae Parker (RSME/T, MFA) is a writer, performer, ritual artist, somatic educator, and space-maker. Voted as best poet in Kansas City, Missouri in 2022 by The Pitch Magazine, she finds deep belonging in the stretching of language through poetry and questioning where a poem might long to live. Having toured and taught internationally with her poetry in Europe, Singapore, and Australia, she feels most at ease while performing and facilitating rituals and conversations around the things that make us human. In addition to holding an MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, they recently received an expressive arts therapy certification through the Tamalpa Institute (2023). When they are not art-ing, you can find her watching anime and eating Hot Cheetos with her cats MeowZaki and Magic Conch Shell.
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Events/performances
Interested in seeing Madison perform live? Click to find a show near you or online! She is also available for booking.
Work with Madison
Editing services, book design, event planning, artistic coaching, and more. Got an idea? Reach out and see if it is a fit!
Artistic archive
From poetry tours to one-woman shows to sculptural poetry and collaborations. Find out more of her work and projects.
Media + interviews
See more photos and hear more about her.
Shop
Shop is coming soon. Please see contact page for commissions in meantime. Poetry, resin work, papier-mâché, and more.
Book Madison
Madison is available for workshops and speaking engagements.
“Madi Mae Parker is an enigmatic dream—full stop. She’s the writer’s writer, unafraid to seek guidance and inspiration from her convictions, a rarity in a field of art priding impression over substance. Madi commands a truthful and well-crafted exchange between writer and reader, artist and audience. Simply put, she is woman, she is water, and her authoritative and exploratory work forces us to seek our own revelatory shores.
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