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Kwame Alexander
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Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, publisher, and New York Times Bestselling author of 35 books, including BECOMING MUHAMMAD ALI (co-authored with James Patterson) , SOLO, REBOUND, which was shortlisted for prestigious UK Carnegie Medal, The Caldecott Medal and Newbery Honor-winning picture book, THE UNDEFEATED, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, and, his NEWBERY medal-winning middle grade novel, THE CROSSOVER. A regular contributor to NPR's Morning Edition, Kwame is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, The Coretta Scott King Author Honor, Three NAACP Image Award Nominations,...
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Elizabeth Willis
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Elizabeth Willis's most recent book is Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2015) . Her other books of poetry include Address (Wesleyan University Press, 2011) , recipient of the PEN New England / L. L. Winship Prize for Poetry; Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan University Press, 2006) ; Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003) ; The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995) ; and Second Law (Avenue B, 1993) . She also writes about contemporary poetry and has edited a volume of essays entitled Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place (University of Iowa Press, 2008) . A recent Guggenheim fellow,...
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