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Fair Weather Reading Seriesw/Roger Bonair-Agard & Logan Phillips
Saturday, November 21, 2015
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Roger Bonair-Agard is a native of Trinidad and Tobago, a Cave Canem fellow, and author of four collections of poetry, tarnish & masquerade (Cypher Books, 2006), GULLY (Cypher Books/Peepal Tree Press, 2010), Bury My Clothes (Haymarket Books, 2013) which was long listed for a National Book Award and won the Society of Midland Authors award for Poetry. He is co-founder of NYC's louderARTS Project and a two-time National Poetry Slam Champion. He has taught & featured extensively in universities, venues, and festivals throughout the world, and been published widely in poetry, essay, and fiction. He teaches Creative Writing at Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center and is writer in residence with Vision Into Art at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. He is Nina's father.
Logan Phillips works to create new opportunities for the intersection of poetry, social justice and wider society. As a bilingual poet, performer and DJ he tours his art throughout the United States, Latin America and beyond. After living in Mexico City (2006-2011), Phillips returned to his homeland to work on a diverse range of projects aimed at expanding the conversation on border identity. His debut full-length book of poems, Sonoran Strange, was published in January 2015 by Albuquerque’s West End Press.
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