Roger Bonair-Agard
A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Roger Bonair-Agard is a poet who lives in Chicago. Bonair-Agard was a member of the 1997 Nuyorican Poets Cafe Poetry Slam team and later coached the 1998 Nuyorican Poets Cafe Poetry Slam team, which went on to win the National Poetry Slam Championship that year in Austin, TX.[1]
He then co-founded the louderARTS Project and has been on the 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 louderARTS Poetry Slam teams.[2] In 1999, he won the individual competition at the National Poetry Slam.[3] He is currently the Artistic Director for louderARTS.
Bonair-Agard studied Political Science at Hunter College, and was about to take the Law School Admission Test when he decided to concentrate on poetry rather than a law career.[4]
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[edit] Bibliography
- Gully, 2010
- Tarnish and Masquerade, 2006, Cypher Books
- Burning Down the House, 2000, Soft Skull Press, co-authored with Stephen Colman, Guy Lecharles Gonzalez, Alix Olson, and Lynne Procope
[edit] Discography
- List in a Valley of Bone: New and Selected Poem Recordings (2009)
- Chantuel
- NYC Slams
- 5 Past 13
[edit] Filmography
- The 2000 National Poetry Slam Finals - 2000, Poetry Slam Inc.
- Poetry slam - 1999, Princeton: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (with David Deutsch, Elizabeth Farnsworth, and Ariana Waynes)
[edit] References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Slam has verse-atility". Chicago Sun-Times. 1999-08-16. 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. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
- ^ "Bonair Agard". The Gleaner. 2003-05-25. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-23449494_ITM. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
[edit] External links
- Roger Bonair-Agard's Website
- The louderARTS Project
- Roger's Journal
- 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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