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Akua Lezli Hope, a Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry, is a paraplegic creator of poems, patterns, stories, music, sculpture, & adornments. In print since 1974 with over 500 poems published, her collections include Embouchure: Poems on Jazz and Other Musics (Writer's Digest Book Award) & Otherwheres: Speculative Poetry (Elgin Award). A Cave Canem fellow, her honors include NEA & NYFA fellowships; SFPA, Rhysling & IGNYTE awards; NYSCA grant for Afrofuturist, speculative, pastoral poetry & 2024 NYSCA grant for disability poetics. She created the Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading series & edited NOMBONO: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators, the first of its kind.
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