Kenneth Carroll

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Kenneth Carroll is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and playwright. He is the author of the poetry collection So What! For the White Dude Who Said This Ain’t Poetry (The Bunny and the Crocodile Press, 1997). His poems have been anthologized in numerous publications, including Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, D.C. (Plan B Press, 2010), edited by Kim Roberts; American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000), edited by Gerald Costanzo; and In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African American Poetry (Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1994), edited by E. Ethelbert Miller.

Carroll was the director of DC WritersCorps and past president of the African American Writers Guild. He has also served on the board of directors of the Poetry Committee of Greater Washington and was a founding member of the 8Rock Writers Collective.