He currently teaches creative writing with the Free Write Arts & Literacy Program at the Cook. 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. Roger Bonair-Agard is a poet and performance artist. The most recent collection, Bury My Clothes (Haymarket Books, 2013) won the Society of Midland Authors award for Poetry and was long listed for the National Book Award. He is the author of three collections of poetry. Roger is a native Trinidadian and Brooklynite. He is Director of Creative Writing with Free Write Arts & Literacy at Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center. This week we welcome Roger Bonair-Agard as our guest author. He is the author of two collections of poetry tarnish and masquerade (Cypher. Roger is extensively published in journals and anthologies. Roger Bonair-Agard is a native of Trinidad and Tobago and a Cave Canem fellow. In this video, he discusses his journey as a writer, rap as a poetic form, and what poetry can do for youth. He has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and been featured at universities and literary festivals throughout the world. 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.
He is co- author of a third collection, Burning Down the House (Soft Skull Press 2000). Roger Bonair-Agards new book, GULLY, journeys from the subverted sport of English gentlemen to the place where a black man might be swallowed up in the throat of trouble. He is the author of two collections of poetry tarnish and masquerade (Cypher Books 2006) and GULLY (Cypher Books 2010). A two-time National Poetry Slam Champion, Roger is also co-founder of NYC’s LouderARTS Project. Roger Bonair-Agard is a native of Trinidad and Tobago and a Cave Canem fellow.
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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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