Monsters and
Nemesis-ters
On the
Prowl
Questing Quizzing Quizzically
Reposing
Supposing
That’s just what monsters do
Undead Unveiled
Viva la mort la
Wanderlust
X chromosome climbing the
Y axis
Zero
Approaching from
Below
Catatonic
Dead
Eyes
Flipping
Giant
Halos
Inert
Jerks
Kickin’ it
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Born in Washington, DC and raised in Crofton, Maryland, Jonathan B. Tucker (JBT) is a writer, performer, educator, DJ, and dreamer passionate about poetry, youth empowerment, racial and social justice, and finding purpose through service to others. He has received numerous awards and artist fellowships, and has performed and taught at schools, libraries, detention centers, museums, and conferences around the world. His poems have appeared in Howard University’s Amistad Journal alongside the late Amiri Baraka (Howard University, 2011), in Etan Thomas’s anthology Voices of the Future (Haymarket Books, 2012), in two self-published chapbooks (jonathan b. tucker, 2010; and i got the matches, 2012), and on the stages of the Kennedy Center and the South African State Theatre. JBT represented DC at the National Poetry Slam in 2009 and 2010, and has helped coordinate and coach the DC Youth Slam Team with Split This Rock since 2011.
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