Tags: Education; Literacy; Spoken Word
Nate Marshall
Art, Children, Music, Poetry
Nate Marshall is an award-winning author, editor, poet, playwright, performer, educator, speaker, and rapper. His book Wild Hundreds (2015) was honored with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s award for Poetry Book of the Year and The Great Lakes College Association’s New Writer Award. Marshall has received fellowships from Cave Canem, The Poetry Foundation, and The University of Michigan. His works include the audio drama Bruh Rabbit & The Fantastic Telling of Remington Ellis, Esq (2019).; the rap album Grown (2015); and the poetry volume FINNA (2020). He is currently an assistant professor of English at Colorado College.
Festival Years: 2018
Recommended Reading
Wild Hundreds
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop