Poets

Poets are some of the most inspiring, thoughtful people in the world today. They share their amazingly well-thought-out works in poetry books and on live stages everywhere. Poets are natural speakers who can be motivational keynote presenters at a host of events. Poetry speakers get people to see important issues of the day from a different perspective, which can add great value to virtual and in-person events.  
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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

Category: Authors , Poets

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

Category: Authors , Poets

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

Category: Activists , 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

Category: Authors , Poets

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

Category: Authors , Poets

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

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

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