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January 28, 2016
Djiboutian novelist, essayist, academic, and poet Abdourahman Waberi currently teaches at George Washington University.
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Adam Zagajewski’s Without End: New and Selected Poems was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2002.
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January 28, 2016
Born in Millville, New Jersey, Anne Waldman grew up in Manhattan surrounded by Beat poetry and jazz.
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January 28, 2016
Askia Touré was born Rolland Snellings in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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After graduating from the University of Illinois, Barbara Ann Teer began her career as an actress, dancer, and director.
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January 28, 2016
Barbara Wien is a peace educator, human rights activist, author, public speaker, nonviolence scholar, and trainer.
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January 28, 2016
Brian Turner was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000 with the 10th Mountain Division and was later an infantry team leader in Iraq.
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January 28, 2016
Charles Wright began reading and writing poetry in the late ‘50s while stationed with the U.S. Army in Verona, Italy.
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January 28, 2016
Chris Williams is a longtime environmental activist and author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis.
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Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, memoirist, and poet Colm Toibin was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in 1955.