I’ve been writing poems about Kanye West for over a year now. I love the research that accompanies my work—from videos to music to his mother’s memoirs. At one point, some of my friends asked for a poem that captured what it’s like to be a poet researching a hip hop star…
Web site: http://www.kanyewestpoetry.com
Accolades:
- Michener Fellowship
- Academy of American Poets Prize, Honorable Mention
- AWP Intro Journal Awards Nominations
- Scholarship Award funded by the Milton B. Dolinger Graduate Fellowship in Writing
- Toby Thompson Prize for Literary Nonfiction
Publications:
- The Threepenny Review
- FIELD
- Michigan Quarterly Review
- Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics
- Los Angeles Review
