Roger Bonair-Agard
Born: in Trinidad
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Bonair-Agard lives in Chicago. Biography: Roger Bonair-Agard is a Cave Canem fellow and two-time National Poetry Slam Champion. He has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and PBS NewsHour. He is the Co-founder and Artistic Director of the LouderARTS Project. The writer-in-residence with Vision Into Art and poet-in-residence with Young Chicago Authors, Bonair-Agard also teaches poetry at the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Facility in Chicago. His book, ''Bury My Clothes'', was a long-list finalist for a National Book Award.
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BonairPoet
Website: http://rogerbonair.blogspot.com/
Roger Bonair-Agard on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=roger++bonair-agard
Selected Titles
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Burning down the house : ISBN: 1887128484 OCLC: 44785791 Soft Skull ; New York : 2000. |
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Bury my clothes / ISBN: 1608462692 OCLC: 841910105 "Bury My Clothes is a meditation on violence, race, and the place in art at which they intersect. Art-specifically in oppressed communities-is about survival, Roger Bonair-Agard asserts, and establishing personhood in a world that says you have none. Through poetry, we transform both the world of art and the world itself"-- |
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Gully ISBN: 9780981913155 OCLC: 717199303 Cypher Books, New York, N.Y. : ©2010. |
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Tarnish and masquerade / ISBN: 1892494698 OCLC: 80933946 Cypher Books, New York : 2006. |