Featured Poet: Lamont B. Steptoe

We are very pleased to have Lamont B. Steptoe as a featured guest and the closing poet for Saturday's Philadelphia Poetry Festival. Steptoe is an icon of the Philadelphia poetry scene and a great influence for many younger poets.

Lamont B. Steptoe is a poet, Vietnam veteran, photographer and the publisher/founder of Whirlwind Press. Steptoe is the author of eight books of poetry, including Mad Minute, Crimson River, and Uncle's South China Sea Blue Nightmare. His work has been anthologized in Life on the Line: Poems of Healing, Brother to Brother, In Search of Color Everywhere, and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, among others. Steptoe was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 1994 and received a 1995-1996 Literary Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He was also a Discipline Winner in the Literature category of the 1995-1996 Pew Charitable Trusts Fellowship Program.

A quick google search will tell you why you don't want to miss this opportunity to see Lamont read. But if you need more convincing, you can read his poems here and here. You can listen to him reading his poems here. And you can check out video of him here, here, or here....