Kate Greenstreet and Quraysh Ali Lansana Links

Fabulous February Poetry Readings - Special Valentine's Day Reading

Kate Greenstreet
is a poet, graphic artist, painter, and the author of several collections of poetry from Ashanta Press, including case sensitive (2006), The Last 4 Things (2009), and, most recently, Young Tambling (2013). Greenstreet has received a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, and her poems have been published in numerous publications, including Colorado Review, Fence, VOLT, Boston Review, Chicago Review, and other journals. Her videos can be viewed in Medium, Dewclaw, Slope, Trickhouse, Evening Will Come, and TYPO. She lives in Ireland with her husband, Max, but the couple is presently crisscrossing the US. 

You can visit her website where she has tons of poems and audio files at 
http://www.kickingwind.com/poems.html
["The giant takes us"]
Poetry Foundation
 An Interview with Kate Greenstreet
A Conversation with Kate Greenstreet
 

Quraysh Ali Lansana is the author of six books of poetry, most recently his mystic turf (Willow Books). He is also the author of a children’s book titled The Big World (Addison-Wesley, 1998) and a book of pedagogy, and is the editor of eight anthologies, including Dream of a Word: The Tia Chucha Press Poetry Anthology (Tia Chucha Press, 2006). He is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Chicago State University, where he also served as director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing from 2002 to 2011.

Listen to audio files of his poems here: http://www.poetrypoetry.com/Features/QALansana/QALansana.php
Interview with Chicago Poetry Press
"Confronting the Warpland: Black Poets of Chicago" documentary
"Mascot"
"Body Shop"
"fate"