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Quraysh Ali Lansana
Lansana's collaborations include many diverse partnerships. Among them are: Brothers In Verse, an ensemble of male African-American performance poets (circa 1990); The Kuntu Drama Players, a company who perform African and African-descendant poetry, dance, instrumental and song for young people in schools (1992-1997); and co-editor for Roll Call, a voluminous generational anthology of African-American poetry (Third World Press, Chicago, 2002). View the poetry video:
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Quraysh Ali Lansana has worked extensively in the Chicago Public schools as a
teacher and a performing artist. He is the author of two books of poetry, the second of which, "southside rain", is forthcoming from Third World Press.
His first children's book was released in 1999 titled "The Big Outside World" (Addison-Wesley). Lansana is a board member and artistic director for The Guild Complex, and was a faculty member at Columbia College (Chicago) until his move to New York City in 2000 to accept a fellowship in African studies at NYU. He was a co-creator of the Guild's Poetry Video Festival.