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Dorame, Megan. We Place Life at the Center / Situamos la vida en el centro. Edited by Carolina Caycedo and Joseph Daniel Valencia. Co-published with Vincent Price Art Museum as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, presented by Getty, and supported by Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia, Banco de la República, Colombia, 2025. "Papaavetam / Water People."
Dorame, Megan. Yellow Medicine Review. "Instructions." Spring 2025 Issue.
Dorame, Megan. The Offing Ten-Year Anniversary Anthology. Edited by, Ashaki Jackson and Mimi Wong. The Offing, 2025. "Papaavetam / Water People"
Dorame, Megan. Chapter House Journal. "what blood is the salinity of saltwater?" Winter 2025 Issue. https://chjournal.com/megan-dorame
Dorame, Megan. Yáamay: An Anthology of Southern California Indigenous Women. Edited by Camaray Davalos, Great Oak Press, 2023. “Contact”, “Sweet Orange”, “Bird Songs”, “Cogstones/ The Pleiades”
Dorame, Megan. The Poetics of Sovereignty: Embracing Self-Determination on the Page. Pen America. 16 September 2020. https://pen.org/the-poetics-of-sovereignty-embracing-self-determination-on-the-page/
Dorame, Megan. Altadena Literary Review 2020. 26 April 2020. "Emergence", "the abalone are dying", "What does loss taste like?"
Dorame, Megan. "Papaavetam / Water People." 2019 Best of the Net Anthology. Sundress Publications. 27 February 2020. http://www.sundresspublications.com/bestof/Dorame.htm
Dorame, Megan. "Heart Cog." Like Home: poetry in response to displacement. A chapbook anthology, part of the accoutrements: a public literary series and in conjunction with Avenue 50 Studio's visual art group exhibition on displacement. 6 September 2019.
Dorame, Megan. “Sweet Orange," "How Do I Live in Concrete?" and "Cog Stones.” Dryland - South Central Los Angeles Literary Journal, 12 July 2019.
Dorame, Megan. “Papaavetam / Water People.” The Offing, 10 June 2019, theoffingmag.com/backoftheenvelope/papaavetam-water-people/.
Dorame, Megan. "Contact" and "Monjerío." The Ear - Annual Literary Journal, 15 May 2019.
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April 2026. Poetry in the Garden at Getty: Scores. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9e447w1nZY
May 2021. LACMA X Snapchat: The Monumental Perspectives Podcast. S1 E4: Through the Portal with Megan Dorame. https://music.amazon.com/es-us/podcasts/aa83a769-1b44-49dd-963b-181e67b00b96/episodes/99595337-2af4-4e5c-8ab7-fb9336567558/lacma-%C3%97-snapchat-the-monumental-perspectives-podcast-s1-e4-through-the-portal-with-megan-dorame
April 2021. The Los Angeles Times. Poetry Stage: Megan Dorame Reading from “Papaavetam/Water People.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7DgCn61bdM
March 2021. Voice over work and performance of an excerpt of "Papaavetam / Water People" for Netflix Animation limited series City of Ghosts. Episode 4: Tovaangar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWjLexwj4eQ
September 24, 2020. Reawakening the Tongva Language through Poetry. Chumash Indian Museum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWcDANQYSHc
Dorame, Megan and Caballero, Kelly. "State of our Climate Address." Hollywood Digital Climate Summit. Video Poem. 16 May 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ibf5NGaItM&t=99s
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November 2026. (Forthcoming) Poem commissioned by Neighbors, Accelerate Resilience L.A. (ARLA) and Spherical.
May 30, 2026. Poem commissioned for Craft Contemporary’s Clay Biennial series: Tierra. “ca-ora-281 (crystal cove).” Los Angeles, CA.
March 2025 - Present. Collaborating with LACMA in an ongoing partnership to incorporate Indigenous voices on the new campus. Los Angeles, CA.
November 2025. Galeria Vida Group Exhibit. misc/etc [poetry archive]. online. https://www.galeriavida.com/expoIII
May 2021. Pakook koy Peshaax (The Sun Enters the Earth and Leaves the Earth). Julia Bogany, Megan Dorame and Iris Yirei Hu. LAND / We Rise LA. Los Angeles State Historic Park.
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2026 Indigenous Nations Poets Returning Fellow.
2025 Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow Recipient. https://www.indigenousnationspoets.org/2025-retreat
2025 Winner. 2024 Chapter House Indigenous Poetry Prize Winner. https://chjournal.com/winter-2025
2020 Finalist - Blood Orange Review Poetry Contest.
2020 Shortlist - Emi Kuriyama Spirit Award - Visitor's Welcome Center - Women's Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, CA.
2020 Best of the Net Nonfiction Winner for "Papaavetam / Water People," nomination by The Offing. http://www.sundresspublications.com/bestof/nonfiction.htm
2020 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow Recipient. https://pen.org/2020-emerging-voices-fellows-mentors/
2019 Pushcart Nomination for "Sweet Orange" nomination by Dryland.
2019 Pushcart Nomination for "Papaavetam / Water People," nomination by The Offing.
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Soto, Christopher. Los Angeles Review of Books. "Tongva Writers Today: The Past, Present, and Future are Unfolding Simultaneously." 21 July 2021. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/tongva-writers-today-the-past-present-and-future-are-unfolding-simultaneously/
Barajas, Julia. The Los Angeles Times. "5 poets address complications of calling L.A. home. How will a reopening city treat them?" Interview and excerpt from "Papaavetam/Water People." 11 April 2021. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-04-11/los-angeles-poets-life-beyond-pandemic
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