{"title":"Darrel Alejandro Holnes","description":"\u003cp\u003eDarrel Alejandro Holnes (born in Panama City, Panama) is a poet, playwright, and professor whose bilingual work draws on Afro-Panamanian heritage, performance, and religious tradition to explore displacement, desire, and identity. He studied at the University of Houston and holds degrees from Fordham and the University of Michigan. His debut collection \u003cem\u003eStepmotherland\u003c\/em\u003e (Notre Dame Press, 2022) won the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry. He is an assistant professor at the City University of New York. He has been a fellow of CantoMundo and received grants from the Bronx Council on the Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"prime-poetry-conversation","title":"Prime: Poetry \u0026 Conversation","description":"Prime: Poetry \u0026amp; Conversation is a first-of-its-kind document of poetry and ongoing conversation in the black, queer literary community, a necessity as the historically well-indexed canon of white queer writers continues to grow with little diversity. Sparked into existence by a Best American Poetry blog from Jericho Brown in which he singled out some of the most exciting young, black, and gay men writing today, Prime features poems by and dialogue between poets Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Saeed Jones, Rickey Laurentiis, Phillip B. Williams, and L. Lamar Wilson. Jericho Brown provides the introduction for this collection, which is proudly published by Sibling Rivalry Press.","brand":"Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Saeed Jones, Phillip B Williams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793310122026,"sku":"9781937420734","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/prime-poetry-conversation-2566065.jpg?v=1762151068"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/darrel-alejandro-holnes.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}