Scylla Liscombe is a poet, dancer, and artist born in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Radford University in Radford, Virginia with a B.S. in Dance. Scylla currently resides in Sarasota, Florida where she serves as Program Director of SOULSPEAK/Sarasota Poetry Theatre and Editor of the Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press.
Scylla is co-originator of SOULSPEAK, a contemporary version of ancient oral, antiphonal poetry, and co-founder of the recording group MANY VOICES. She is the winner of the 1996 Sirius Award.
GATHERING, 1997, MANY VOICES
SMOKE, 1998, MANY VOICES
SPEAKINGS, 1999, MANY VOICES
NURSERY RAPS, 1999, MANY VOICES
IN YOUR MIND, 2000, MANY VOICES
I'M TALKING TO YOU OPRAH, 2002, MANY VOICES
Amherst College (MA), Bard College (NY), Donn Roll Gallery, Eckerd College, Hillsborough Arts Council First Night, Manatee Community College, New College/USF, Nuyorican Cafe (NY), Prodigal Son (MA), Project Black Cinema, Ringing School of Art and Design, Sarasota Visual Arts Center, St. Pete Times Reading Festival, St. Peter's College (NJ), Third Rail Lounge, (MA), Univ. of Mass/Dartmouth, Ulster Community College (NY), Univ. of South Florida, Venice Art Center, Bennington College (VT), Holy Cross College (Mass), Sarah Lawrence College (NY), Salem College (NC), SNN-TV/News, Sarasota Comcast Cable - TV/Sarasota Arts Today, WMNF Radio, Art in Your Ear, WWSB Ch. 40/News.
Vacancies/Greg Thielen/1996
Sarasota & Manatee Poets Anthology/1997
New Voices/Sarasota Co. Schools Poetry Competition Winners/1998
Dissolve/Dana Curtis/1997
Season of Leaving/Jessica Jordan Nudel/1998
Poems At Risk/1998
Songs of Cyesis/1998
Trees are the Slowest Rivers/Brent Goodman
1999 Talkies, An Anthology/1999
Coming Home, Poems at Risk/1998-99
Animals In Poetry/1999
La Belle et La Bête/Madelon Sprengnether/2000
Begin Here/Mari L'Esperance/2000
Fig/Adrianne Kalfopoulou/2001
Falling Trees and Rising Stars/2000
New Voices F.I.R.S.T. (Foundation for Intensive Rehabilitation of Sexual
Trauma)/2000
Young Voices North Port Glenallen Elementary/2000
Young Voices Sarasota Foundation Middle School/2000
Young Voices New Deal/Venice High/2000
Young Voices YMCA Triad North/2000
Young Voices YMCA Triad South/2000
Young Voices Sarasota Middle School/2000
Young Voices YMCA Character House/2000
Young Voices Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches/2001
Young Poets Competition
Sarasota County Middle & High School
Manatee County Middle & High Schoo
National Poetry Chapbook Competition
Edda Poetry Chapbook Competition (national)
Sarasota & Manatee Anthology Competition
Soulspeak Poetry Competition (national)
Animals in Poetry Anthology Competition (national)
Spring Poetry Prize (national)
Girls, Inc. (97, 98), Boys & Girls Clubs at Bradenton, Fruitville, Newtown, Northport (97, 98), Bradenton Drug Treatment Community (96, 97), Myakka Stop Camp (97, 98), Gulf Coast Marine Institute Bradenton & Venice (98), Cyesis Teen Parent Program (98), Just for Girls (98-99), Pace Center for Girls (98-99), Adolescent Recovery Center at Manatee Glens (98-99), Sarasota Foundation Middle School (99-00), YMCA Character House (00), YMCA Triad South (00), YMCA Triad North (99), North Port Glenallen Elementary (00), New Deal/Venice High(99-00), Opportunity High (00), Beacon House Mental Health Community Center (99), Tammi House for Recovering Alcoholics (00), F.I.R.S.T. (Foundation for Rehabilitation of Sexual Trauma) (00), Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches (00).
Project grants supporting the SOULSPEAK Program, of which Scylla Liscombe was one of the two principal poets involved (1995-current).
Bank of America Community Foundation of Sarasota
Bates Foundation
Beattie Foundation
Community Foundation of Sarasota County
Florida Department of Juvenile Justice
Kates Foundation
Knight Foundation
Sarasota County Foundation
Selby Foundation
State of Florida Interdisciplinary
State of Florida Arts in Education
Woman's Exchange
Venice Foundation
VSA Arts