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About the Poet: <br />Quincy Troupe is the author of 20 books, including 10 volumes of poetry <br />and three children’s books. His awards include the Paterson Award for <br />Sustained Literary Achievement, the Milt Kessler Poetry Award, three <br />American Book Awards, the 2014 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, a 2014 <br />Lifetime Achievement Award from Furious Flower,and the Charles H. Wright <br />Museum of African American History Award, January 25, 2018, in Detroit, <br />Michigan. His writings have been translated into over 30 languages. <br />Troupe’s latest books of poems are Seduction and a book length poem, Ghost Voices, published by Tri-Quarterly <br />Northwestern University Press in 2018. He is co-author with Miles Davis of Miles: the Autobiography,and author of <br />miles and me, a chronicle of his friendship with Miles Davis, re-issued by Seven Stories Press (Fall 2018) and <br />scheduled for release in 2020 as a major motion picture for which Mr. Troupe wrote the screenplay. Also forthcoming <br />from Seven Stories Press are Duende: Poems from 1966 Until Now (Fall 2020) and a memoir, The Accordion Years, in <br />2021. <br />Quincy Troupe is Professor Emeritus from the University of California, San Diego. He edits Black Renaissance Noire a <br />literary and culture journal published by the Institute of African American Affairs at New York University. He lives in <br />Harlem (New York) with his wife, Margaret Porter Troupe. <br />18