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CURRENT 2007-2008 SEASON
Ammiel Alcalay
Jabari Asim
Monica Arac de Nyeko
Amiri Baraka
Charles Cobb, Jr.
Jayne Cortez
Thulani Davis
Soyica Diggs
Ivanhoe Donaldson
Michael Eric Dyson
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Nuruddin Farrah
Walter E. Fauntroy
Joanne Gabbin
Lawrence Guyot
Vincent Harding
Ruth Harris
Danny Hoch
Maurice Jackson
Pierre Joris
Ilya Kaminisky
Randall Kenan
Dorie Ladner
Haki Madhubuti
Mark McMorris
Dinaw Mengestu
E. Ethelbert Miller
Angelyn Mitchell
Laura Moriarity
Aldon Nielsen
Robert Patterson
Carl Phillips
Eugene Redmond
Elizabeth Robinson
Sonia Sanchez
Sandra Shannon
Valerie Smith
Cole Swensen
Barbara Ann Teer
Ekwueme Michael Thelwell
Askia Touré
Eleanor W. Traylor
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Nuruddin farah
Nuruddin Farah
is the author of nine novels, most recently
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Named the 1998 laureate of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Farah was born in Baidoa, Somalia and now lives in Cape Town, South Africa.