“black poets”

2Leaf Press

ABIODUN OYEWOLE, a founding member of The Last Poets, is the author of The Beauty of Being (2018), editor of Black Lives Have Always Mattered (2017), author of the seminal Branches of the Tree of Life: The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole 1969-2013 (2014), and is the co-author of On A Mission: Selected Poems and A History of The Last Poets (1996). He received his BS in biology and BA in communications at Shaw University, completed his PhD in education at Columbia University, and is a Columbia