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Minkah Makalani

Nick Makoha

The Founder of Obsidian Foundation Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet and playwright and based in London. His debut Kingdom of Gravity was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize and…

Cynthia Manick

  Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. A Pushcart Prize nominated poet with a MFA in Creative Writing from the New School; she…

Erica Mapp

Artist and poet Erica Mapp, originally from Trinidad, lives in New York City. She received a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in New York and a MA…

Natasha Marin

Kim Marshall

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Kim Marshall is a biracial poet who considers herself from a little bit of everywhere due to the experience of traveling extensively during her childhood.…

Maya A. Marshall

Maya Marshall is a Chicago-based writer, editor, and poet. She is co-founder of  www. underbellymag.com. Marshall holds fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Her…

Nate Marshall

Nate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. His first book, Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. He is an editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New…

Kyla Marshell

Kyla Marshell’s work has appeared in Blackbird, Calyx, Gawker, The Guardian, O, the Oprah Magazine, and on the Poetry Foundation. Her work has earned her Cave Canem and Jacob K. Javits fellowships, two residencies…

Dawn Lundy Martin

Dawn Lundy Martin was awarded the 2006 Cave Canem Poetry Prize by Carl Phillips for her manuscript, A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering (University of Georgia Press, 2007). She…

Adrian Matejka

Adrian Matejka is the author of four collections of poems including The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013) which a winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was finalist for the National…

Airea Matthews

Carolyn Matthews

andriniki mattis

Jamaal May

Jamaal May is the author of two chapbooks, The God Engine and The Whetting of Teeth. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.…

Trapeta Mayson

Shara McCallum

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Shara McCallum is the author of three individual collections of poetry, This Strange Land, Song of Thieves, and The Water Between…

Nathan McClain

Charleen McClure

JoAnne McFarland

JoAnne McFarland is a painter and poet working in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn. Her latest poetry collection Acid Rain received Honorable Mention in the inaugural Northwestern University Press Cave…

M'Bilia M. Meekers

M’Bilia Meekers is a poetry MFA student at NYU. She has won numerous awards, including the Mable Faun Poetry Award of 2011 and Tulane University’s Academy of American Poets Prize…

Ernesto Mercer

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Ernesto Mercer is a poet-multidisciplinary artist, teaching-artist and an independent scholar. His work incorporates many of the written and verbal arts from around the…

Constance Merritt

Constance Merritt is the author of three poetry collections: A Protocol for Touch (UNT 2000), Blessings and Inclemencies (LSU 2007), and Two Rooms (LSU 2009). Her awards include a Radcliffe…

Dante Micheaux

Dante Micheaux is the author of Amorous Shepherd (Sheep Meadow Press, 2010). His poems and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Bloom, Callaloo, Gathering Ground and Rattapallax—among other…

Ciara Miller

Normal 0 false false false EN-US ZH-CN AR-SA Ciara Darnise Miller was born and raised on the West Side of Chicago. After becoming a  Louder than a Bomb poetry slam…

David Mills

Veronica Mitchell

Erica Monteiro

Jonathan Moody

Moody received his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and is a Cave Canem fellow. His poetry has appeared in African American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gathering Ground, Gemini Magazine, good foot, The…

Kamilah Aisha Moon

A recipient of fellowships to the Prague Summer Writing Institute, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, Cave Canem and The Vermont Studio Center, Kamilah Aisha Moon‘s work has…

Indigo Moor

Eddie Moore

Lenard Moore

Opal Moore

Renee Moore

Jessica Lanay Moore

Tracie Morris

Tracie Morris is a poet who’s worked as a page-based writer, sound poet, critic, recording artist, scholar, bandleader, actor, artist consultant, vocal coach and multimedia performer. She presents her work…

Cheswayo Mphanza

Harryette Mullen

John Murillo

John Murillo is the author of the collection, “Up Jump the Boogie” (Cypher 2010).  A graduate of New York University’s MFA program in creative writing, he has received fellowships from…

Annette L. Murrell

Annette L. Murrell (Dr Diva) is a jazz singer and writer.  She has produced and released two recordings: My Shining Hour and Annette Murrell: Live at the Zoo Bar!  She has published…