Joel Dias Porter aka DJ Renegade (1962) was born and raised in
Pittsburgh, PA, and was a professional DJ in the DC area. From
1994- 1999 I competed in the National Poetry Slam, and was the 1998
and 99 Haiku Slam Champion. Places my poems have been published
include Time Magazine, The Washington Post, Callaloo, Antioch
Review, Red Brick Review, Beltway Quarterly and the anthologies
Gathering Ground, Love Poetry Out Loud, Meow: Spoken Word from the
Black Cat, Short Fuse, Role Call, Def Poetry Jam, 360 Degrees of
Black Poetry, Slam (The Book), Revival: Spoken Word from
Lollapallooza, Poetry Nation, Beyond the Frontier, Spoken Word
Revolution, Catch a Fire, and The Black Rooster Social Inn, an
anthology of poems and photos of visual art. In 1995, I received
the Furious Flower "Emerging Poet Award" from James Madison
University. Performances include the Today Show, the documentary
SlamNation, on BET, and in the feature film Slam. A Cave Canem
fellow and the father of a young son, I have a CD of jazz and
poetry on Black Magi Music, entitled "LibationSong".
Evie Shockley (1965) was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee,
poet Evie Shockley earned a BA at Northwestern University, a JD at
the University of Michigan, and a PhD in English literature at Duke
University. The author of several collections of poetry, including
a half-red sea (2006) and the new black (2011), Shockley is also
the author of the critical volume Renegade Poetics: Black
Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (2011).
Her poetry and essays have been featured in several anthologies,
including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature
Poetry (2009), Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook (2010), A Broken
Thing: Contemporary Poets on the Line (2011), and Contemporary
African American Literature: The Living Canon (2013). Shockley’s
honors include the Holmes National Poetry Prize and fellowships
from Cave Canem, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the American
Council of Learned Societies, and the Schomburg Center for Research
in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. Coeditor of the
journal jubilat from 2004 to 2007, Shockley is a professor at
Rutgers University. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Patrick Rosal (1969) is the author of three full-length poetry
collections: Boneshepherds (Persea, 2011), recognized as a 2012
notable book both by the National Book Critics Circle and the
Academy of American Poets; My American Kundiman (Persea, 2006),
winner of the Global Filipino Literary Award and the 2006 Book
Award in Poetry from the Association of Asian American Studies; and
Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (Persea, 2003), winner of the
Members’ Choice Award from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
His poetry and prose have been published widely in journals and
anthologies, including ESPN’s Grantland, Tin House, American Poetry
Review and Harvard Review. A former Fulbright Fellow, he is
currently on the faculty of Rutgers University – Camden’s MFA
program and lives in Bed-Stuy.
Latasha N. Nevada Diggs (1970) Writer, vocalist, and sound aritst,
Latasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of three chapbooks which
include Ichi-Ban and Ni-Ban (MOH Press), and Manuel is destroying
my bathroom (Belladonna Press), as well as the album, Television.
Her work has published in Rattapallax, Black Renaissance Noir,
Nocturnes, Polvo, Spoken Word Revolution Redux, Drumvoices Review,
Long Shot, The Black Scholar, P.M.S, Bum Rush the Page, Jubilat,
Everything But the Burden, Black Belt, and Tea Party Magazine to
name a few. LaTasha has received scholarships, residencies, and
fellowships from Cave Canem, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts
Center, Naropa Institute, Caldera Arts, New York Foundation for the
Arts (2003/2009), the Eben Demarest Trust, and the Barbara Deming
Memorial Grant for Women. LaTasha was the poetry curator for the
online arts journal, www.exittheapple.com. She is a Harlem Elohi
Native.
Jason Carney (1970) has been a mainstay on the national performance
poetry scene for the past ten years. Hailing from Dallas, Texas
this fiery performer brings unique insights on issues of race class
and gender. Using the lessons of his past he weaves together images
that transform the audience. Breaking down barriers and biases so
that all can have an honest conversation involving some of our
nation's critical issues. Mr. Carney has performed all across our
country mesmerizing audiences with his wit and conviction. Whether
telling an illuminating antidote about his children or stirring the
ghost of our societies past present and future his effect is
riveting. Mr. Carney has appeared on several seasons of the HBO
television show RUSSELL SIMMONS DEF POETS. He is a four time
national poetry slam finalist. honored as a legend of slam poetry
in 2006 and 2007. Jason has done six NACA conferences including two
national conventions. Been seen on national geographic channel as
well as local television channels across the united states. He has
spoken and done workshops at high schools juvenile detention
centers corporate diversity engagements as well has colleges and
universities extensively in the fifty states.In a rehabilitation
center in his youth Jason's life was changed forever by a gay man
who was dying from AIDS. Using poetry to redefine his world, he
transformed the hate and racist ignorance of his southern
upbringing. His life mission is to educate and participate in an
honest conversation of race class and gender.
Krista Franklin (1970) is a poet and visual artist from Dayton, OH
who lives and works in Chicago. Her poetry and mixed medium
collages have been published in lifestyle and literary journals
such as Coon Bidness, Copper Nickel, RATTLE, Indiana Review,
Ecotone, Clam and Callaloo, and in the anthologies Encyclopedia
Vol. II, F-K and Gathering Ground. Her visual art has been featured
on the covers of award-winning books, and exhibited nationally in
solo and group exhibitions. Franklin is a Cave Canem Fellow, a
co-founder of 2nd Sun Salon, a community meeting space for writers,
visual and performance artists, musicians and scholars, and a
teaching artist for Young Chicago Authors, Neighborhood Writing
Alliance, and numerous organizations in the city of Chicago. Krista
is currently pursuing her Master of Fine Arts in the
Interdisciplinary Book + Paper Arts program at Columbia College
Chicago. For more information, please visit her website,
www.kristafranklin.com
Jessica Care Moore (1971) is an internationally renowned poet/
publisher/ activist/ rock star/ playwright and actor. She is a
five-time Showtime at the Apollo winner; has featured on hip-hop
mega-star, Nas' "Nastradamus" album and was a returning star of
Russell Simmon's HBO Series, Def Poetry Jam. After her legendary
win on the Apollo stage, jessica Care moore was approached by
several book publishing companies, but in 1997, she paved her own
path and launched a publishing company of her own – Moore Black
Press. Which has released her first book; "The Words Don't Fit In
My Mouth," and several thousand copies. A few years later, she
followed up with her second collection of poetry and essays, "The
Alphabet Verses The Ghetto." Moore Black Press proudly published
famed poets, Saul Williams and Shariff Simmons; Def Poetry Jam's
co-founder, Danny Simmons, NBA basket-ball player, Etan Thomas,
activist and poet, Ras Baraka and former Essence Magazine editor
and author, Asha Bandele.
Adrian Matejka (1971) was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and grew up
in California and Indiana. He earned his BA from Indiana University
and his MFA from Southern Illinois
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Kevin Coval is the author of Schtick, L-vis Lives: Racemusic
Poems, Everyday People and the American Library Association Book of
the Year" Finalist Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica. He is the founder
of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, Artistic
Director at Young Chicago Authors, and teaches at the University of
Illinois at Chicago.
Quraysh Ali Lansana is the author of eight poetry books, three
textbooks, a children's book, editor of eight anthologies, and
coauthor of a book of pedagogy. He is a faculty member of the
Creative Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute and the
Red Earth MFA Creative Writing Program at Oklahoma City University.
He is also a former faculty member of the Drama Division of The
Juilliard School. Lansana served as Director of the Gwendolyn
Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago
State University from 2002-2011, where he was also Associate
Professor of English/Creative Writing. Our Difficult Sunlight: A
Guide to Poetry, Literacy & Social Justice in Classroom & Community
(with Georgia A. Popoff) was published in March 2011 by Teachers &
Writers Collaborative and was a 2012 NAACP Image Award nominee. His
most recent books include The Walmart Republic w/ Christopher
Stewart and reluctant minivan.
Nate Marshall is the author of Wild Hundreds. He won the Agnes
Lynch Starrett Prize and served as a Zell Postgraduate Fellow at
the University of Michigan. A Cave Canem Fellow, Nate won the 2014
Hurston/Wright Founding Members Award and the 2013 Gwendolyn Brooks
Open Mic Award. He is a founding member of the poetry collective
Dark Noise. He is also a rapper.
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