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Honey Bell-Bey

Poet Laureate of Cuyahoga County, OH 2020

Honey Bell-Bey holds a BA in Broadcast Production Technology from Bethune-Cookman University. A motivational poet, writer, educator, and community advocate, Bell-Bey is an Ohio Certified Prevention Specialist and the founder and director for The International, Distinguished Gentlemen of Spoken Word, a character based performance troupe for adolescent males who perform on topics of disparities and social injustices. She has performed, directed, and choreographed Spoken Word performances internationally and has received numerous awards and accommodations for her service and activism utilizing poetry as a tool to unite communities around issues in social justice and equity. She was appointed the poet laureate of Cuyahoga County in January 2020, the first poet in sixteen years to hold the position, and lives in Cleveland, Ohio. 

Read about Honey Bell-Bey’s 2020 Poets Laureate Fellowship project.

Honey Bell-Bey
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Poet Laureate of Cuyahoga County, OH

Poet Laureate of Cuyahoga County, OH

In 2020, Honey Bell-Bey was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow.