After MONDAY NIGHT POETRY-JULY 3rd,2023
COLLECTIVE BREATH – POETRY BOOK CLUB
July 2023 Poet of Study – Darius Simpson
Bio From:
https://www.dariussimpson.com/
Darius Simpson
is a writer, educator, performer, and skilled living room dancer from Akron, Ohio. He received an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from Mills College. Darius was a recipient of the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is the author of Never Catch Me (Button Poetry, 2022). He hopes to inspire that feeling you get that makes you frown and slightly twist up ya face in approval. Darius’ poems have appeared in POETRY Magazine, The Adroit Journal, American Poetry Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and others. Darius believes in the dissolution of empire and the total liberation of all oppressed people by any means available. Free the People. Free the Land. Free All Political Prisoners.
Videos:
Darius Simpson – An Ode to Crocs
Darius Simpson – The Role of the Artist
Darius Simpson – We Don’t Die
TEAM PIECE: Darius Simpson and Scout Bostley – Lost Voices
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