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Guest Leader

2nd Thursday,  December 8 ~ Alameda Island Poets Workshop  on Zoom
​7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Marilyn Flower and Cathy Dana                             
Featured leaders:   Kim McMillon ~ Poets Michael Warr, Linda D. Addison, and C. Liegh McInnis from Black Fire--This Time anthology
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                                            Michael Warr

Poet Michael Warr’s books include Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, The Armageddon of Funk, and We Are All The Black Boy. His literary honors include a 2021 San Francisco Artist Grant, 2020 Berkeley Poetry Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, San Francisco Library Laureates, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award, Creative Work Fund Award, NEA Fellowship, and an award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association which called his writing “A poetic soundtrack to black life.” His poems are translated into Chinese by poet Chun Yu for their Two Languages / One Community workshop project. ​

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                                                                 Linda D. Addison
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Linda D. Addison
, an award-winning author of five collections, including How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, recipient of the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award, HWA Mentor of the Year and SFPA Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry. Addison has published over 400 poems, stories and articles. Visit Linda's website here. 



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                                             C. Liegh McInnis

​C. Liegh McInnis
 is a poet, short story writer, Prince scholar, retired instructor of English at Jackson State University, former editor/publisher of Black Magnolias Literary Journal, and author of eight books, including four collections of poetry, one collection of short fiction (Scripts:  Sketches and Tales of Urban Mississippi), one work of literary criticism (The Lyrics of Prince:  A Literary Look), one co-authored work, Brother Hollis:  The Sankofa of a Movement Man, which discusses the life of legendary Mississippi Civil Rights icon, and former First Runner-Up of the Amiri Baraka/Sonia Sanchez Poetry Award.  Additionally, he has been published in magazines, newspapers, and anthologies.


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