The creator and facilitator of The Baldwin Protocols: towards an arts based intervention for students of color in higher learning, at University of Dubuque, he lives and works in Chicago and New York City. He has made numerous television and radio appearances, has led countless workshops and lectures, and has performed his poetry at many US universities as well as at international festivals in Germany. He is Director of Creative Writing with Free Write Arts & Literacy at Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center. by Roger Bonair-Agard Write The First Customer Review Shipping A veteran of the spoken-word scene, two-time National Slam Champion Roger Bonair-Agard releases his first full length poetry collection with accompanying CD full of spellbinding performances. Roger Bonair-Agard Biography A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Roger Bonair-Agard is a poet and performance artist who lives in Chicago. Roger is extensively published in journals and anthologies. He has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and been featured at universities and literary festivals throughout the world. A two-time National Poetry Slam Champion, Roger is also co-founder of NYC’s LouderARTS Project. He is Program Director and writes on Pedagogy and Curriculum design with Free Write Arts & Literacy at Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention. ISBN 13: 9780997199680 Where Brooklyn At Bonair-Agard, Roger 4.75 avg rating (4 ratings by Goodreads) Softcover ISBN 10: 0997199687ISBN 13: 9780997199680 Publisher: Willow Books, 2016 This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. In this video, he discusses his journey as a writer, rap as a poetic form, and what poetry can do for youth. Roger Bonair-Agard is a native of Trinidad & Tobago, and Brooklyn a Cave Canem fellow, and author of four full length collections of poetry, tarnish & masquerade (Cypher Books, 2006), GULLY (Cypher Books/Peepal Tree Press, 2010) and Bury My Clothes (Haymarket Books, 2013), which was long listed for the National Book Award, and won the Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry 2013, and Where Brooklyn At?! (forthcoming in 2016 from Willow Books). Roger Bonair-Agard’s collection of poems, Bury My Clothes, published in 2013 by Haymarket Books, earned him a spot on the longlist for this year’s National Book Award for poetry. Because I Cannot Remember My First Kiss but I remember sitting alone on the brown couch in my grandmother's living room, couch whose cushion covers were of velvet. He currently teaches creative writing with the Free Write Arts & Literacy Program at the Cook County, Illinois Temporary Juvenile Detention Center in Chicago.
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