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Len Lawson earned a B.S. in Business Administration (Management option) from Winthrop University and an M.A. in English from National University. He has been accepted to the Ph.D. in English Literature & Criticism program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He currently teaches writing and literature at Central Carolina Technical College. His scholarly article "Back to the Future: Approaches to Best Practices in Reflective Teaching" appeared in Cultivating Visionary Leadership by Learning for Global Success: Beyond the Language and Literature Classroom (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015). He is a Poetry Reader and Book Reviewer for Up the Staricase Quarterly. Len is co-founder of the Poets Respond to Race initiative and co-editor of its upcoming first anthology (Muddy Ford Press). He is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a three-time Best of the Net nominee, and a 2016 Callaloo Fellow. He won the 2016 Jasper Magazine Artist of the Year Award in Literary Arts. He has been a finalist for the inaugural Berfrois Poetry Prize, the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, and the Yellow Chair Review Chapbook Prize. His poetry has also been and will be featured in coffee shops and transit buses in the Columbia, SC metro area, selected by Columbia Poet Laureate Ed Madden. He has poems appearing or forthcoming in several anthologies and journals including Callaloo, [PANK], The James Franco Review, Winter Tangerine Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and Charleston Currents, selected by South Carolina Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth. His website is www.lenlawson.co.

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"Len Lawson is an unflinching voice, whether he is condemning the blood on the hands of his country, exhuming blood-drenched Southern Soil, or exploring the blood in his own veins, his poems stare into the face of history, grief, and death while daring us to do the work of living." -Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, Author of Dear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation "The poems in Len Lawson's powerful collection Before the Night Wakes You speak to the African American experience in ways we all need to hear. Lawson creates a different form for each poem, as if he's reinventing a way to articulate his response to the brutality of race. From couplets to prose poems, from The Middle Passage to Black Lives Matter, he faces the truth head on. Part history, part social commentary, part eulogy, I highly recommend this collection to readers trying to find their way through the complexities of race relations. This is a voice that matters." -Marjory Wentworth, Poet Laureate of South Carolina "I saw my picture in the paper," Len Lawson writes, and it is that double imperative of representation and identification that drives this book. From Marky Mark to The Matrix, Lawson interrogates authenticities and appropriations of black culture, the risks and rituals of being black in a culture where we still have to insist that "black lives matter." This book is a marvel, moving from wildly inventive poems about black bodies in American culture and politics, to deeply moving personal poems about a father's death. If death haunts this book, it is Lawson's imagination and creative use of form and language that repeatedly lifts us, teaches us, gives us breath. -Ed Madden, Author of Ark

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  • PublisherFinishing Line Press
  • Publication date2017
  • ISBN 10 1635341248
  • ISBN 13 9781635341249
  • BindingPaperback
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Number of pages46

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