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Taylor Mali is a four-time National Poetry Slam champion and the author of the poetry collections Bouquet of Red Flags (Write Bloody Books, 2014) and The Last Time as We Are (Write Bloody Books, 2009).
Allen Ginsberg was one of the leading icons of the Beat movement, and "Howl" became one...
Patricia Smith is a poet, teacher, and performance artist. Her poetry collections...
A prominent figure in the Beat poetry generation, Anne Waldman has published over forty books of...
Edwin Torres is a bilingual, New York-based poet who’s a self-proclaimed “lingualisualist” whose...
Poet, playwright, and social advocate Amiri Baraka, considered one of the founders of the Black...
Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of Chapel of Inadvertent Joy (University of...