Lamont B. Steptoe
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Lamont B. Steptoe (born 1949 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American poet, photographer, and publisher.
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[edit] Life
He was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Temple University.[1] He was a Vietnam veteran, and founder of Whirlwind Press.[2][3]
[edit] Awards
- 2005 American Book Award
- 1999 Literary Fellow for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
- 2002 Kuntu Writers Workshop Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry, from founders Rob Penny and August Wilson
[edit] Works
- "Update on the Disembodied", Longshot Vol 22
- Kitchens of the Master. Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books. ISBN 9781877968143.
- Mad Minute, Whirlwind Press, 1993
- Uncle's South Sea China Blue Nightmare. Plan B Press. 2003. ISBN 9780972831215.
- Cat Fish and Neckbone Jazz
- Dusty Road. Whirlwind Press. 1995. ISBN 9780922827176.
- Common Salt
- Trinkets and Beads
- Crimson river: poems , Slash & Burn, 1984
[edit] Anthologies
- Keith Gilyard, ed. (1997). "Window Shopping". Spirit & flame: an anthology of contemporary African American poetry. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815627319. http://books.google.com/books?id=CWN0OM5kN1YC&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&dq=Lamont+B.+Steptoe&source=bl&ots=SpeKYBg38O&sig=akMJttMxjxX39Tlz11lv0DNH_s4&hl=en&ei=O3rsStScOJHcNsrr-IMM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=Lamont%20B.%20Steptoe&f=false.
- Arnold Rampersad, Hilary Herbold, ed. (2006). "Three Legged Chair". The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195125634. http://books.google.com/books?id=y0Gy4NIaHJAC&pg=PA409&dq=Lamont+B.+Steptoe&ei=KnvsSrGOA6a2Ne-kyfYL#v=onepage&q=Lamont%20B.%20Steptoe&f=false.
- Miguel Algarín, Bob Holman, ed. (1994). "For Gwen Brooks". Aloud: voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Macmillan. ISBN 9780805032574. http://books.google.com/books?id=Qx8yrOG29vYC&pg=PA487&dq=Lamont+B.+Steptoe&lr=&ei=j3zsSrKpA6a2Ne-kyfYL#v=onepage&q=Lamont%20B.%20Steptoe&f=false.
- Randall Horton, M. L. Hunter, Becky Thompson, ed. (2007). Fingernails across the chalkboard: poetry and prose on HIV/AIDS from the black diaspora. Third World Press. ISBN 9780883782743.
- Essex Hemphill, ed. (1991). Brother to brother: new writings by Black gay men. Alyson Publications. ISBN 9781555831462.
