M Ayodele Heath

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Nationality American Role Poet Name M. Heath		Known for poetry Occupation poet Education New England College

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M. Ayodele Heath is an American poet, spoken-word performer, and fiction writer.

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Life

Born in Atlanta, M. Ayodele Heath studied electrical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and holds an MFA in Poetry from New England College. He was a two-time Southeastern Regional Poetry Slam Individual Champion (1999, 2000) and a top-10 individual finisher at the National Poetry Slam (1999). His first book of poems, Otherness, was published in 2011 on Brick Road Poetry Press. He is creator of the collaborative poetry form, electronic corpse, and editor of the anthology, Electronic Corpse: Poems from a Digital Salon (Svaha Paradox, 2014).

Awards

1999, 2000 Southeastern Regional Poetry Slam Individual Champion

2001 Emerging Artist grant from the Atlanta Bureau for Cultural Affairs

2002, 2003 Fellowship, Summer Poetry at Idyllwild

2005 Fellowship, Caversham Center for Writers & Artists, South Africa

2007 McEver Visiting Chair in Writing at the Georgia Institute of Technology

2009 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize

2010 Fellowship, Cave Canem Foundation

2011 RHINO Editors' Prize

Film/Video

3-Minute Activists: the Soul of Slam (Mad Mouth Media, Cogitate Productions), feature-length film (2014).

28 Days of Poetry: Poets Make Black History (Week 1), web video series (2011).

28 Days of Poetry: Poets Make Black History (Week 2), web video series (2011).

28 Days of Poetry: Poets Make Black History (Week 3), web video series (2011).

28 Days of Poetry: Poets Make Black History (Week 4), web video series (2011).

References

M. Ayodele Heath Wikipedia

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