- Roger Bonair-Agard
A native of
Trinidad and Tobago , Roger Bonair-Agard is apoet who lives inBrooklyn . Bonair-Agard was a member of the 1997Nuyorican Poets Cafe Poetry Slam team and later coached the 1998Nuyorican Poets Cafe Poetry Slam team, which went on to win theNational Poetry Slam Championship that year in Austin, TX.Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. (2008). "Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam."New York City : Soft Skull Press. "Chapter 19: And Two Become Three; Mouth Almighy Becomes NYC-Urbana and Nuyo's Championship Team Becomes louderARTS" ISBN 1-933-36882-9.]He then co-founded the [http://www.louderarts.com/ louderARTS Project] and has been on the 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 louderARTS Poetry Slam teams.Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. (2008). "Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam."
New York City : Soft Skull Press. "New York City Slam Teams from 1990 to 2007" ISBN 1-933-36882-9.] In 1999, he won the individual competition at theNational Poetry Slam . [cite news |title=Slam has verse-atility |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4242B1B90AED4&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=Chicago Sun-Times |date=1999-08-16 |accessdate=2008-04-09 ] He is currently the Artistic Director for louderARTS.Bonair-Agard studied
Political Science atHunter College , and was about to take theLaw School Admission Test when he decided to concentrate on poetry rather than a law career. [cite news |title=Bonair Agard |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-23449494_ITM |work=The Gleaner |date=2003-05-25 |accessdate=2008-04-09 ]Bibliography
*"Tarnish and Masquerade", 2006, Cypher Books
*"Burning Down the House", 2000, Soft Skull Press, co-authored withStephen Colman ,Guy Lecharles Gonzalez ,Alix Olson , andLynne Procope Discography
*Chantuel
*NYC Slams
*5 Past 13Filmography
*The 2000 National Poetry Slam Finals - 2000, [http://www.poetryslam.com/ Poetry Slam Inc.]
*Poetry slam - 1999, Princeton: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (withDavid Deutsch ,Elizabeth Farnsworth , andAriana Waynes )References
External links
* [http://www.rogerbonairagard.com/ Roger Bonair-Agard's Website]
* [http://www.louderarts.com/ The louderARTS Project]
* [http://rogerbonair.blogspot.com/ Roger's Journal]
* [http://www.indiefeedpp.libsyn.com/index.php?search_string=rogerbonairagard.com&search=1 Audio of "How Do We Spell Freedom?," "Southpaw," "Andrew Jackson's Statue, French Quarter New Orleans" and "Soul" (among others) on Indiefeed Performance Poetry Channel]
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