Top 10 Poets
Speakers List
Juan Felipe Herrera Former Poet Laureate of the United States
The son of migrant farm workers, Herrera was educated at UCLA and Stanford University, and he earned his MFA f... Read More
Kae Tempest British Rapper, Poet, and Playwright
Kae Tempest started out as a rapper toured the spoken word circuit for a number of years and now works as a po... Read More
Category: Poets , Creativity Speakers
Kevin Young Distinguished Poet National Book Award Finalist
Kevin Young is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture recently named a National Hi... Read More
Category: Authors , Poets , Top Black Keynote Speakers
Kim Fields Actress Best Known for "Facts of Life" and "Living Single"
During Kim's thirty years in show business, she has starred in two long running series, "Facts of Life” and "L... Read More
Category: Actors-Actresses , Poets , TV Personalities
Leslie Marmon Silko Acclaimed Native American Novelist, Poet and Essayist
Leslie Marmon Silko is known for her verse treatment of Native American subjects. Despite the fact that maybe... Read More
Lorna Dee Cervantes Feminist, Activist Poet
Lorna Dee Cervantes is an award-winning Chicana, Native American (Chumash), feminist, activist poet who is con... Read More
Luis Rodriguez Official Poet Laureate of Los Angeles; Poet novelist journalist critic and columnist.
Luis Rodriguez saw his own way out of poverty and despair in the barrio of East LA and successfully broke free... Read More
Category: Authors , Journalists , Poets
Nancy Morejon Cuban poet, critic, and essayist
Nancy Morejón is the best known and most widely translated woman poet of post-revolutionary Cuba. Born in 1944... Read More
Naomi Shihab Nye Accomplished Poet and Author
Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father was a Palestinian refugee and her mother an Ameri... Read More
Natasha Trethewey Former Poet Laureate of the United States
Poet Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the... Read More
Category: Poets
Nikki Giovanni NAACP Image Award Winning Poet, Best-Selling Author and One of Oprah's 25 Living Legends
Poet Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 7, 1943. Although she grew up in Cincinnati,... Read More
Category: Arts Culture Keynote Speakers , Authors , Poets
Nikky Finney National Book Award-Winning Poet
"So—you can write pretty," Toni Cade Bambara tells the twenty-one-year-old Nikky Finney during a monthly writi... Read More
Category: Authors , Professors , Poets