Roger Bonair-Agard

Roger Bonair-Agard is a native of Trinidad & Tobago and Brooklyn. He is the author of three previous collections of poems, tarnish & masquerade and GULLY (both from Cypher Books) and Bury My Clothes (Haymarket Books, 2013), which won the Society of Midland Authors award for poetry and was long listed for the National Book Award. He fronts the band Miyamoto is Black Enough, and is co-founder of NYC's LouderARTS Project and Chicago's The Baldwin Protocols Series. The Director of Creative Writing...See more

Roger Bonair-Agard is a native of Trinidad & Tobago and Brooklyn. He is the author of three previous collections of poems, tarnish & masquerade and GULLY (both from Cypher Books) and Bury My Clothes (Haymarket Books, 2013), which won the Society of Midland Authors award for poetry and was long listed for the National Book Award. He fronts the band Miyamoto is Black Enough, and is co-founder of NYC's LouderARTS Project and Chicago's The Baldwin Protocols Series. The Director of Creative Writing with Free Write Arts & Literacy, he lives in Chicago and is Nina's father. See less