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*This book collects a series of collaborations with comic artists, including Ernest Concepcion and Alex Tarampi
*Author was the Queens Poet Laureate from 2010 to 2014
*Author organized poetry and art festival at Queens Museum of Art, Eterniday: Queens Poet Lore Festival of the Language Arts
*Author was profiled by Ian Frazier in The New Yorker in 2015
*Author participated in the Queens International in 2018-2019
*Author was a featured blogger on The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet
*Author is Program Director of Poets House
*Author has 20 years of experience as an educator both at college level and secondary & middle school levels (ELA) as a public school teacher
*Author holds a BFA from the University of British Columbia and MFA from Bard College
*Awards: Queens Council of the Arts, Queens Poet Laureate, Small Press Traffic Book of the Year Award for the time at the end of this writing (Ahadada), 2004
The former Queens Borough Poet Laureate (2010-2014), Paolo Javier was born in the Philippines and grew up in Las Piñas, Metro Manila; Katonah, Westchester County; El-Ma’adi, Cairo; Burnaby and North Delta, Metro Vancouver. He earned an MFA and MAT from Bard College. Javier’s collections of poetry include The Feeling Is Actual (2011); 60 lv bo(e)mbs (2005); the time at the end of this writing (2004), recipient of a Small Press Traffic Book of the Year Award; and Court of the Dragon (2015). He is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Queens Council on the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. For more than ten years, he edited and published the experimental art and poetry journal 2nd Avenue Poetry.
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