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Print Anyone can write a poem. To be a poet, though — to have your work read in an age not exactly teeming with famous verse stylists, Amanda Gorman aside — you have to submit. Every year, poets around the country submit their work for dozens of prizes and contests, hoping for a shot at prestige, visibility, maybe eventually an academic job offer. It’s a difficult path, and until recently it was an impossible one for poets like Javier Zamora. Zamora earned his MFA in poetry in 2014 at New York University under the best writers in the country. He’d been published in literary journals like Narrative and Meridian (and would be in the New Republic and the New York Times). But in his early years, he was largely excluded from prizes, contests and fellowships.
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By Nora Luongo Share When Roberto F. Santiago (MFA, ‘12) met Mark Labowskie (MFA, ‘13) for the first time, he was immediately intrigued. “I was just so interested in everything he was saying, but I didn’t really know why.” Labowskie’s first recollection of Santiago is a bit different. “We were all walking back to Newark Penn Station and there was this guy talking about how he’d just moved into a new place in Harlem, and how it was so great to finally be living in the ‘real’ New York.” He laughs. “I was living in Brooklyn, and I was very offended by that.” He adds, “It was bickering at first sight. Which is a kind of precursor to love sometimes.”
Daudi Abe Daudi Abe is a Seattle-based professor, writer, and historian who has taught and written about culture, race, gender, education, communication, hip-hop, and sports for over 20 years. He is the author of the book 6 ‘N the Morning: West Coast Hip-Hop Music 1987-1992 & the Transformation of Mainstream Culture and From Memphis and Mogadishu: The History of African Americans in Martin Luther King County, Washington, 1858-2014 at www.BlackPast.org. His work has appeared in The Stranger and The Seattle Times, and he has appeared on national media such as MSNBC and The Tavis Smiley Show. Abe holds an MA in human development and a PhD in education from the University of Washington. His forthcoming book is