Roger Bonair-Agard is a native of Trinidad and Tobago, a Cave Canem fellow and co-founder of the louderARTS project. Roger is a two-time National Poetry Slam Champion and Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe Fresh Poet of the Year 1998. He is the author of three collections of poems, Tarnish and Masquerade (Cypher Books, 2007); Gully (Cypher Books/Peepal Tree Press, 2010); and Bury My […]
(A young Black woman remembers 1870) 1. I do not come when called Mostly I materialize Dark as a kiss incarnate again and again sometimes twice in one life now mother now the burnt sugar sweet of a wide-eyed wide-hipped too-young lover now concubine now priest I do not come […]
(After Patrick Rosal) To laugh at weaker boys (or at least the less sharp-tongued) to kick ball till the moon rose or something vital bled – we lived To wait like predator for the first note of a slow jam to grind ourselves into the wall with a pretty girl […]
(after Frida Kahlo) The water gave me madness incessant humming blood the water remembers the torn torso melting through a seashell’s portholes the quadrangular tight-rope of death disease slaughtered women the trade in gold and spirit of five hundred nations drifting the water remembers the water is […]
Roger Bonair-Agard author of the forthcoming collection, tarnish and masquerade, discusses the genesis and form of his poem, called: Eurydice.
Roger Bonair-Agard author of the forthcoming collection, tarnish and masquerade, discusses how he determines the form a poem will take.
Roger Bonair-Agard author of the forthcoming collection, tarnish and masquerade, talks about his current poetry projects.