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Quique Avilés

Quique Avilés is a DC poet, performer, and community activist whose work is dedicated to addressing social issues.

Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto.

Jabari Asim is an author, journalist, poet, and playwright is currently the Editor-in-Chief of The Crisis, the NAACP’s flagship publication.

John Ashbery’s Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems won the 2008 Griffin International Prize for Poetry.

Anthony Arnove is coproducer with Brenda Coughlin and Jeremy Scahill of the documentary film Dirty Wars.

Siah Armajani was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1939. He designed the tower, bridge and cauldron for the 1996 Centennial Olympics.

El Salvadorean William Archila is the author of The Art of Exile, 1st Place winner at the International Latino Book Awards in 2010.

Poet, artist, and critic David Antin invented a genre: the talk poem.

Betsy Andrews is editor of Saveur and several books of poetry, as well as chapbooks.

Beth Anderson is a critically acclaimed composer of new romantic, avant-garde music, text-sound works, and musical theater events.