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. 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. He is Director of Creative Writing with Free Write Arts & Literacy at Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center. Youth arts communities are sacred and we injure that sacredness. Roger is extensively published in journals and anthologies. Back to Previous Roger Bonair-Agard Poet and spoken-word artist Roger Bonair-Agard was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the United States in 1987. TW: Statement on Roger Bonair Agard from my sibling Fatimah Asghar. ![]() He has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and been featured at universities and literary festivals throughout the world. As of this writing, the 2014 World Cup has begun. A two-time National Poetry Slam Champion, Roger is also co-founder of NYC’s LouderARTS Project. His free kicks and penalties were taken with only one step a long stride. ![]() 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).
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