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Published Works
Full-length poetry collections


 * HIS RIB: An Anthology of writing by Her, Edited by Mahogany L. Browne, Forward by Patricia Smith, Penmanship Books, 2007
 * Destroy, Rebuild & Other Reconstructions, Penmanship Books, 2009
 * SWAG, Penmanship Books, 2010
 * Dear Twitter, Penmanship Books, 2010
 * smudge, Button Poetry, 2015
 * REDBone, Willow Books, 2015
 * Black Girl Magic: A Poem, Roaring Brook Press, 2018
 * Woke Baby, Roaring Brook Press, 2018

Essays


 * Dismantling Rage: On Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider, Excerpted from Sister Outsider (Penguin Classics, 2020). Reprinted in the Fall-Winter 2019 issue of American Poets, the biannual journal of the Academy of American Poets. Copyright © 2019 by Mahogany L. Browne. (put this into the career paragraph) found on poets.org
 * Kite Patterns, Art for Justice Fund, 2019
 * After Prison, Art for Justice Fund, 2019
 * Blueprint and Hymnal, Art for Justice Fund, 2019
 * On Naming Our Fear, Art for Justice Fund, 2019
 * Net Worth of Black Girls, Art for Justice Fund, 2019

Poems


 * Litany, The Academy of American Poets, 2019
 * Inevitable, The Academy of American Poets, 2019
 * On St. John’s and Franklin Avenue, Used with permission of the poet, 2019 https://poets.org/poem/st-johns-and-franklin-avenue
 * Ego-Tripp(ed), Copyright © 2015 by Mahogany L. Browne. Reprinted from Split This Rock’s The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database.

= The Lady Chablis = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search The Lady Chablis (March 11, 1957 – September 8, 2016) was an American actress, author, and transgender club performer. Through exposure in the bestselling nonfiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil that reads like fiction, and its 1997 film adaptation, she became one of the first drag performers to be accepted by a wider audience. ADD MORE ON HER BOOK

Early life[edit]
Born Benjamin Edward Knox in 1957, Knox had four siblings (two sisters and two brothers), and grew up in Quincy, Florida, but later moved to New York City. Legally her name was changed to "The Lady Chablis" in the 1990s. ANYWAY TO CHANGE DEAD NAME. ANYTHING ELSE ON EARLY LIFE

Career[edit]
A poster in memoriam of The Lady Chablis on the Jefferson Street wall of Club One. It mentions her catchphrase, which she uses in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: "Two tears in a bucket, motherfuck it."

Chablis stated that she began her career at age 15 in a gay bar in Tallahassee, Florida.

Chablis frequently performed at her "home" nightclub of Club One in Savannah, where she was known as the "Grand Empress". Chablis traveled the US performing her show, The Doll Revue, at various venues and special events, such as gay pride gatherings. She also appeared on radio shows. She was a prominent character in John Berendt's best-selling book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994), and played herself in the 1997 film adaptation, starring Kevin Spacey and John Cusack.

The Lady Chablis was featured in the closing segment of the Savannah episode of Bizarre Foods America on The Travel Channel. She joined host Andrew Zimmern at several Savannah restaurants including Elizabeth on 37th. In 2012, she was interviewed in Savannah on the local television and internet talk show "MAMA Knows Best Talk Show" season 2 episode 1. On April 19, 2013 Chablis performed for the grand opening of the short-lived Mama's Cabaret in Lewiston, Maine, with "MAMA" Savannah Georgia.

Awards and titles[edit]
In her early career as an entertainer, under the name Brenda Dale Knox, she won multiple titles in drag pageantry including:


 * Miss Dixieland 1976
 * Miss Gay World 1976
 * The Grand Empress of Savannah 1977
 * Miss Sweetheart International 1989

Autobiography[edit]

 * La dy Chablis (1996).

Filmography[edit]

 * Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) as Chablis Deveau (credited as Lady Chablis)
 * Midnight in Savannah (1997, TV documentary) as Herself
 * Partners (1999, TV movie) as Beverly
 * Damn Good Dog (2004, video documentary) as Herself
 * Bizarre Foods America: Savannah (2012) as Herself
 * Real Housewives of Atlanta (2013) as Herself

Death[edit]
The Lady Chablis died from Pneumocystis pneumonia in a Savannah hospital at the age of 59 on September 8, 2016. Pneumocystis pneumonia is an opportunistic infection that mainly afflicts those suffering from HIV/AIDS.

Transition[edit]
According to Berendt's book, Chablis was a transgender woman; Berendt wrote that he met Chablis as she was returning home from having a hormone injection. In her book Hiding My Candy, Chablis said she had not undergone sex reassignment surgery.