Roger Bonair-Agard is a native of Trinidad & Tobago, a Cave Canem fellow, and author of three full length collections of poetry, tarnish & masquerade (Cypher Books, 2006), GULLY (Cypher Books/Peepal Tree Press, 2010), and Bury My Clothes (Haymarket Books, 2013), which was long listed for the National Book Award and won the Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry 2013. A two-time National Poetry Slam Champion, Roger is also co-founder of NYC’s LouderARTS Project and a Creative Writing MFA candidate at University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Program. He has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and been featured at universities and literary festivals throughout the world. Roger is extensively published in journals and anthologies. He teaches creative writing with Free Write Jail Arts & Literacy Program at Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center. He lives and works in Chicago and New York City. He is Nina’s father.
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Anansi see a whole ceiling of spiders
come down. The medicine man laugh
his no-teeth laugh again and tell him Write!
And...
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