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Metta Sama

I live in three physical worlds and an innumerable number of pyschic worlds. I’m most at home in flight and walking, conversing, listening. I’m still taking photographs using an untrained…

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Aaron Samuels

  Aaron Samuels is a Cave Canem Fellow, a Pushcart-nominated poet, and a nationally acclaimed facilitator of critical identity discussions.  Raised in Providence, Rhode Island, by a Jewish-American mother and…

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Gwen Samuels

Gwen T. Samuels, born in Florida and raised in New Jersey, was a K-12 teacher, college professor, and court interpreter for 30 years. She is a Fulbright Scholar with a…

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Sami D. Schalk

Sami Schalk is a feminist poet from Southgate, Kentucky. She received her Bachelor degrees in Creative Writing and Women’s Studies at Miami University of Ohio and her MFA in Creative…

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Seabrook , Tish

Tish Ann Seabrook

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Nicole Sealey

Born in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. and raised in Apopka, Florida, Nicole Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast, forthcoming from Ecco in fall 2017, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are…

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Shabazz , Shia

Shia Shabazz

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Shakir , Nancy

Nancy Shakir

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Charif Shanahan

Charif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing (Southern Illinois University Press, 2017), winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Prize. His poems…

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Aisha Sharif

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Aisha Sharif received her MFA in poetry from Indiana University, Bloomington.  Her work has appeared in Muslim Wakeup!, Touchstone Literary Journal, …

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Sharpe , Sherina

Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe

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Stewart Shaw

Shaw has been published in various journal both online and print, most recently Serendipity Literary Magazine and African American Review. His upcoming chapbook, The House of Men, will be published…

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Sher , Ira

Ira Sher

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Sherrard , Cherene

Cherene M. Sherrard

Cherene Sherrard was born in Los Angeles. She is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-where she teaches nineteenth and twentieth century American and African American literature,…

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Shirley , Tanya

Tanya Shirley

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Shockley , Evie

Evie Shockley

Evie Shockley is a poet and scholar. Her most recent poetry collections are the new black (Wesleyan, 2011) and semiautomatic (Wesleyan, 2017); both won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the…

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Kevin Simmonds

Kevin Simmonds is a writer, musician and filmmaker originally from New Orleans. His books include Mad for Meat, Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality and Ota Benga…

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Simms , Renee

Renee Simms

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singleton , giovanni

giovanni singleton

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Slaughter , Chris

Chris Slaughter

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Danez Smith

Danez Smith is a Black, queer, poz writer & performer from St. Paul, MN. Danez is the author of [insert] boy (YesYes Books, 2014), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and…

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John Warner Smith

John Warner Smith’s most recent collection of poems, Spirits of the Gods, was published by UL Press in 2017.  Other collections include Soul Be A Witness (MadHat Press, 2016) and…

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Smith , Jonathan

Jonathan C. Smith

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Smith , Mistinguette

Mistinguette Smith

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Smith , Rose

Rose Smith

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Smith , Tracy K.

Tracy K. Smith

Tracy K. Smith is the author of The Body’s Question (Graywolf Press 2003), which won the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and Duende (Graywolf Press, 2007), winner of the James…

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Clint Smith

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L'Oréal Snell

L’Oréal Snell’s poems have appeared in Ithaca College’s IC View, Coon Bidness /SO4 Literary Magazine, Reverie: Midwest African American Literature, Cave Canem’s XI and XII anthologies, and theblackbottom.com. She has been a featured poet at the…

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Speaks-Love , Folade

Folade Speaks-Love

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Christina Springer

Christina Springer is a text artist who uses poetry, dance, theatre,film and other visual expressions.  As an Outreach Artist for the Historic Royal Palaces, she delivered  four projects with youth:…

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Christopher D Stackhouse

Christopher Stackhouse is the author of Slip, Corollary Press 2005. He is co-author of the collaborative book Seismosis 1913 Press 2006, that features his drawings in philosophical discourse with texts…

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Stewart , Rebecca

Rebecca Stewart

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Stewart-White, Lolita

Lolita Stewart-White

Lolita Stewart-White is a poet who lives and works in Miami. She is a Cave Canem alumni and a Pushcart nominee. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Rattle,…

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Shelby Stokes

Shelby Stokes has taught Upper School English at the Fieldston School since 2000. 

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Strickland , Darry

Darry Strickland

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Stringer, Dana

Dana L. Stringer

Dana L. Stringer is an Atlanta-based poet, playwright, and writing instructor. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is the author of the chapbook…

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Sujuane , Tamika

Tamika Sujuane

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Laura Swearingen-Steadwell

Laura Swearingen-Steadwell’s second collection, All Blue So Late, won the Cave Canem Northwestern University Poetry Prize and was published by Northwestern University Press. She lives in Manhattan, and will be…

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