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Award-Winning Poet, Scholar,Activist

Caroline Randall Williams is a catalyst. She makes change possible by bringing art and joy into the room in such a way that the grit of real challenge and limits…

Award-Winning Poet & National Book Award Finalist

Claudia Rankine is one of the nation’s most interesting and powerful voices on race in America today. Her work spans various genres, including visual arts and the essay, and draws…

Award-Winning Teacher | Acclaimed Spoken Word Poet and staff writer at The Atlantic

Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic.

Author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and NYT Magazine Ethicist

Chuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of eight books of nonfiction (including Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; But What If We’re Wrong?; and Chuck Klosterman X) and two novels (Downtown…

Author & Poet, often referred to as "Bob Marley with a pen," due to the spiritual, sensual, social themes presented from a literary Jamaican perspective

Colin Channer was born in Jamaica, and educated there and in New York. His most recent book is the poetry collection Providential (2015), which Eileen Myles describes as "one of…