DORIANNE LAUX's most recent collection is Only As The Day Is Long: New and Selected, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also author of The Book of Men (W.W. Norton) which won the Paterson Prize for Poetry. Her fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton) , is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award, chosen by Ai. It was also short-listed for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States and chosen by the Kansas City Star as a noteworthy book of 2005. A finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award, Laux is also author...
Mahogany L. Browne
Mahogany L. Browne is writer, organizer & educator. Currently the Artistic Director of Urban Word NYC Browne has received literary fellowships from Air Serenbe, Cave Canem,Poets House & Rauschenberg. She hosts/curates the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Friday Night Slam Series and has authored: Black Girl Magic (Roaring Brook/Macmillan) , Kissing Caskets (Yes Yes Books) , Dear Twitter (Penmanship Books) & out or print titles: Smudge (Button Poetry) , Redbone (Willow Books) .
Dorianne Laux
DORIANNE LAUX's most recent collection is Only As The Day Is Long: New and Selected, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also author of The Book of Men (W.W. Norton) which won the Paterson Prize for Poetry. Her fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton) , is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award, chosen by Ai. It was also short-listed for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States and chosen by the Kansas City Star as a noteworthy book of 2005. A finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award, Laux is also author...
Mahogany L. Browne
Mahogany L. Browne is writer, organizer & educator. Currently the Artistic Director of Urban Word NYC Browne has received literary fellowships from Air Serenbe, Cave Canem,Poets House & Rauschenberg. She hosts/curates the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Friday Night Slam Series and has authored: Black Girl Magic (Roaring Brook/Macmillan) , Kissing Caskets (Yes Yes Books) , Dear Twitter (Penmanship Books) & out or print titles: Smudge (Button Poetry) , Redbone (Willow Books) .