Saul Williams is an American poet, musician, performance artist, actor, but above and including all, simply, an artist. He is best known for starring in and cowriting the movie SLAM, however, others may know him for his ability to redefine and blur the lines of hip-hop, poetry, and theatrics. When we talk about Spoken Word poetry, his name must be dropped. His poetry books include The Seventh Octave (1998; Moore Black Press); S/he (1999; MTV/Pocketbooks); said the shotgun to the head (2003; MTV/Pocketbooks); The Dead Emcee Scrolls (2006, MTV/Pocketbooks). Closely linked to The Dead Emcee Scrolls is Williams's latest album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!, on which he worked closely with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Its blend of industrial, spoken word and hip-hop has received immense success.
Douglas Kearney's first full-length collection of poems, Fear, Some, was
published in 2006 by Red Hen Press. His second manuscript, The Black
Automaton, was chosen by Catherine Wagner for the National Poetry Series
and will be published by Fence Books in 2009. In 2008, he was honored with
a Whiting Writers Award. Also a librettist, he has collaborated with the
composer Anne LeBaron on the opera Sucktion, which received a MAP Fund
grant and premiered at the New Original Works Festival in Los Angeles in
2008, and on Mordake with composer Erling Wold, which premiered in 2008 at
the San Francisco International Arts Festival. An Idyllwild and Cave Canem
fellow, Kearney has performed his poetry at the Public Theatre, Orpheum,
and The World Stage. His poems have appeared in journals such as Callaloo,
jubilat, nocturnes, Ninth Letter, Washington Square and Gulf Coast. Born
in Brooklyn, now living in California's San Fernando Valley, he has a BA
from Howard University and an MFA in Writing from the California Institute
of the Arts, where he now teaches courses in African American poetry,
myth, hip hop and opera.
Website: http://www.douglaskearney.com/
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