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Roger Bonair-Agard

Biography Roger Bonair-Agard

Roger Bonair-Agard is a poet and performance artist. He is a native of Trinidad & Tobago, and Brooklyn, is author of tarnish & masquerade (Cypher Books, 2006), GULLY (Cypher Books, 2010), Bury My Clothes (Haymarket Books, 2013)—which was long listed for the National Book Award and won the Society of Midland Authors award for poetry—and Where Brooklyn At?! (Willow Books/Aquarius Press, 2016).

His work has been published in Rattapallax, Louisville University Review, Union Station Magazine, Harvard Review Online, Gulf Coast, Poem a Day, Drunken Boat, Poetry Magazine Online, Callaloo, Apex Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, and several anthologies.

Roger is Writer-in-Residence at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust, co-founder of NYC’s LouderARTS Project, and front man for the band Miyamoto is Black Enough. A Cave Canem fellow, Roger is creator and facilitator of The Baldwin Protocols: Reading Series, and the Baldwin Protocols, a series of arts-based interventions in the form of workshops, seminars and lectures which help students of color and first generation students traverse the potential pitfalls of life in Primarily White Institutions of higher learning. Roger has taught Creative Writing at every level, from Kindergarten to Research 1 Universities. He is Program Director and writes on Pedagogy and Curriculum design with Free Write Arts & Literacy at Cook County Juvenile Temporary.

Day After the Verdict

Roger Bonair-Agard

A Few More Words about Trayvon

Roger Bonair-Agard

The Esu Of Forgiveness Or Black Fatherhood Takes The Long Way Round

Roger Bonair-Agard

Citation, or Safe in Bed-Stuy

Roger Bonair-Agard

On Hiking the Smoky Mountains, Tennessee

Roger Bonair-Agard

On Nina’s Climbing Stairs

Roger Bonair-Agard

Of Ferguson and a Black American Future

Roger Bonair-Agard

The Year We Burst Into Flame

Roger Bonair-Agard

Ambition

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What Hasn’t Met You – Elegba Soliloquy 1

Roger Bonair-Agard

“The Water Gave Me Madness”

Roger Bonair-Agard

Because I Cannot Remember My First Kiss

Roger Bonair-Agard

Questionnaire

Roger Bonair-Agard

Lay Him Down – An Elegy For The Surviving

Roger Bonair-Agard

A Few More Words On Trayvon

Roger Bonair-Agard

Crossroads

Roger Bonair-Agard

A Full 40oz Beer Is Tossed From A Passing Car And Lands At My Feet

Roger Bonair-Agard

How I Learned To Talk, Or Why I Will Not Be Killed; A Warning—Ars Poetica

Roger Bonair-Agard

Muse

Roger Bonair-Agard

Fast – How I Knew

Roger Bonair-Agard

Niggas

Roger Bonair-Agard

Jes So We Does Talk

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Groom Routine

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Ode To The Man Who Grabbed My Arm In The Bar

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Return: On Leaving Again

Roger Bonair-Agard

Cumbia Night At The Hotel Congress – Tucson, Az

Roger Bonair-Agard

Still Life With Sheriff, Governor, Desert

Roger Bonair-Agard

Open Letter to Norma

Roger Bonair-Agard

National Botanical Gardens 1986

Roger Bonair-Agard

Morning / Father

Roger Bonair-Agard

Ars Poetica: Parable Of Carpentry

Roger Bonair-Agard

Horse Sense

Roger Bonair-Agard

Inordinate

Roger Bonair-Agard

Learning To Read

Roger Bonair-Agard

Afro

Roger Bonair-Agard

Not How Spring Works

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Anoint

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The New Math

Roger Bonair-Agard

Two Bottles Of Rum And The Roaring Lion

Roger Bonair-Agard

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