African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California. Active in creative writing and spoken word since the early 1990s. Author of 10 books—Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater, Skeletal Black, Elohi Unitsi, Rusty Gallows: Passages Against Hate, Plans, Crimson Stain, Discovery and his newest, The Mansion—and 82 anthology appearances under his figurative belt so far.