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INDEPENDENTE ARTISTA | SCRITTORE | ORATORE | EDUCATORE My published work is studied by Graduate students in the syllabi for Advanced English courses taught at Paris College of Art, Sciences Po, and L'École Militaire by the Creative Writing Professor, Malik Ameer Crumpler for FALL 2024–2026 curricula. For 2025, my art is showing at Dulles and Reagan International Art Gallery through 2027. My second solo work with editor Dario Roberto Dioli is housed in Fondation Bonotto and Biblioteca d'Arte and published by Asatami Legesse Edizioni (2024). Additionally, as an OHE Fellow, I help share our military stories utilizing art as the great communicator. In this capacity, I boost visibility for the Veteran Affairs OHE National Online Art Gallery. Past art projects exhibited with Honolulu Printmakers at the Downtown Art Center, L’Air Arts, the Women’s Memorial, Honfleur Gallery, Dulles and Regan International Art Gallery, the Library of Congress and Embassy of the United Kingdom, to name a few. My debut "Ashes to Ashes" was published by Paper View Press (2021), and I've contributed to over two dozen anthologies published by independent bookshops or sold worldwide, with the latest being Maintenant 19: a Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (Three Rooms Preas, 2025). The Oxford Brookes anthology received acclaim and praise from Blesma Magazine, BFBS Radio, the Royal Military College of Canada, and the Scottish Poetry Library. Other anthologies are archived at the MOCA, Poem Atlas, the National Poetry Library, and with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. My short film distinctions include Official Selection of the Fringe Festival with Army@theArts. My selected interviews are archived with British Forces Broadcasting Services (BFBS), the Office of Health Equity, the Center for New American Security (CNAS), Brookes Poetry Centre, the Poetry Archive, and the Folklore Podcast. I was a Finalist in the National 9/11 Challenge America Poetry Contest with published work presented to deployed service members through a national Operation Gratitude Campaign and displayed at the NVAM. I am a public speaker and have led tours and talks in a variety of venues, including at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial (WIMSA) at Arlington National Cemetery, the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the Writer's Center in DC, and as Park Ranger for the National Parks Service at Petersburg National Battlefield. See my profile at the Poets & Writers Directory: https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/maggs_vibo
Fellow and Scholar working to further equitable access to art resources for all Veterans. The Office of Health Equity (OHE) champions the elimination of health disparities and achieving health equity for all Veterans. OHE supports the VHA's vision to provide appropriate individualized health care to each Veteran in a way that eliminates disparate health outcomes and assures health equity.
Public Speaker at following: Library of Congress Veterans History Project, the Women in Military Service for America Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and Anacostia Arts Center in Historic Anacostia Podcast Guest Spots on: The Center for New American Security, The Department of Health Equity Podcast: Leave No Veteran Behind, Oxford Brookes University Podcast, Eat the Storms, and Iamb: Poetry Seen and Heard Published works at the following: @berfrois @penteractpress.com @steelincisorspress @cutbowquarterlyjournal @handwrittenandco @trickhousepress @experiment-o @feversof @room207press @folklorepod @IceFloeP @Babelboard @angstfzine @poematlas @brookespoetry @veteranswriting @ArmyAtTheFringe @rainbow_poems • Contributing artist and author with a growing archive of over two dozen anthologies • Published works in quarterly literary reviews and a five-year anthology issue • Archival pieces for O-Dark-Thirty and Forward military literary journal • Panel Discussions at the Writer's Center in DC and the Prince George Regional Heritage Museum in VA • Art Exhibitions at Atelier 11 at L'Air Arts in Paris, the Honfleur Gallery in Historic Anacostia, the National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago, the Hill Center at the Historic Old Naval Hospital, and at Washington Dulles International Concourse
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As an Interpretive Guide with the National Park Service, I taught history, culture, and natural science and protected our national treasures.