Interviews
Wild Words podcast, “The Poetry of Shame & Self-Forgiveness”
Ocracoke Community Radio WOVV 90.1, host Peter Vankevich
Chatham County Council on Aging, “Listen & Learn-a-thon”
Ocracoke Community Radio WOVV 90.1, with North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green, host Peter Vankevich
Guest Speaking
Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist, Chapel Hill, NC, “There Are Still Places Google Can’t Take You,”
Cardinal Toastmasters Open House, Raleigh, NC, “There Are Still Places Google Can’t Take You”
Commissions & Exhibits
Alamance Arts Blank Canvas GALA fundraiser, commissioned poem and performance
Eyes on Alamance Exhibit, Alamance Arts, photography and poetry
Call and Response w/ artist Bibi Davidson, Shoebox Arts, covid-19 stay-at-home project
Miscellaneous
Book Launch, Anything That Happens
Awards and Honors
Singing Riptide
North Carolina Arts Council Artist Support Grant, 2023
Anything That Happens
Second Finalist, Poetry Society of Virginia North American Book Award
Honorable Mention, Brockman-Campbell Book Award
Untitled (nonfiction, in progress)
Writing Residency, Sundress Academy for the Arts
Part story about a mentorship between an architect and a poet, part philosophical inquiry into house and home, and part personal narrative exploring interior landscape–that space within our skin where we feel and think–Wilder sets out to answer the question, “What does it mean to have a house: as shelter, as sentiment, as possibility, as identity?”
Other
Writer-in-Residence, SistaWRITE Women’s Retreat
Reviews
“Anything That Happens is Cheryl Wilder’s salve to the willing reader’s wounded psyche.” —Angela Dribben, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online
Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan
Independent Book Review, Susan E. Morris
Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, Angie Dribben
Readers’ Favorite, Jacob R. LaMar
North Carolina Literary Review, Anna McFadyen
Goodreads
Diary of an Eccentric
The Book Lover’s Boudoir
Impressions in Ink
Jorie Loves a Story
Musings of a Bookish Kitty
Author Anthony Avina
Cheryl Wilder’s poems are almost shatteringly direct: they explore guilt and suffering so cleanly and so precisely that every detail testifies, and mercy is ever possible. —Nancy Eimers, author of Oz
