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Committing to breathing.

No Noose is good Noose.

FILMS

Featured. 73 Poems for 73 Years: Celebrating the Life of Lucille Clifton. Producers Nikki Giovanni and Joanne Gabbin. Furious Flower and The Steger Poetry Prize, James Madison University, September 21, 2010.

Featured. Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison. Producers Nikki Giovanni and Joanne Gabbin. Furious Flower, James Madison University and Virginia Tech University, October 16, 2012.

 

AWARDS

African Voices Literary Award, June 2013.

Paterson Prize for Books for Young People. I and I Bob Marley. New York: Lee and Low Books, 2009.

New York Public Library’s “100 Titles for Reading and Sharing”  (2009), read more: I and I, Bob Marley
Richie Partington’s Best of 2009 List, read more: I and I, Bob Marley

AWARDS Con't

Nominated for the Cybils Middle Grade/Young Adult Nonfiction category, I and I, Bob Marley

Seattle Times Holiday Book Review Roundup (2009), read more: I and I, Bob Marley
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book (2009), read more: I and I, Bob Marley
Cleveland Public Library’s 2009 Best-of Book List, I and I, Bob Marley

The Langston Hughes Society Award from the Langston Hughes Society, April 2013.

Finalist for the 2011 Paterson Poetry Prize for My Old Man Was Always on the Lam (NYQ Books), April 14, 2012

“Broke Baroque” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2014.

Broke Baroque. New York: 2Leaf Press, 2013. Finalist for the 2013 Julie Suk Award for Best Poetry Book.