Roger Bonair-Agard
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Writer, Teacher, Performer |
| Location | Chicago, Brooklyn |
| Introduction | Roger Bonair-Agard is a native of Trinidad & Tobago, a Cave Canem fellow and author of 2 collections of poetry, tarnish and masquerade (Cypher Books, 2006) and GULLY (Cypher Books, Peepal Tree Press, 2010). He is an MFA candidate at University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast Program and co-founder of New York City's LouderARTS Project. A 2-time National Poetry Slam champion, Roger is poet-in-residence with Young Chicago Authors and Vision Into Art. He is an avid sports fan, a relentless shit-talker, a hedonist. |
| Interests | poems, the Body, sports (esp. football - with the feet), liquor, love, the Bible, music, sweat, Brooklyn, clothes, Chicago, visual art, Toni Morrison, Prince, family, names of flowers, cycling, rivers, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Queen's Royal College, Anthony Perez, Arouca, homemade hot sauce, sex, laughter, Real Talk Avenue, young people, heat, drugs, Angel Nafis, all my failings, SimonandLucy, brunch, the Notorious B.I.G, l'il Wayne, naming things. |
Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?
No. they have separate histories, separate lives. they're not even evolved from the same thing.