Tony Medina is an American poet and professor at Howard University. He won the 2010 Patterson prize.
He was born in the South Bronx. He grew up in Throgs Neck. He graduated from Binghamton University, State University of New York.
In 2013, he read at the Schomburg Center.
Children's
DeShawn Days, Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, Lee & Low Books, 2001, ISBN 9781584300229
Christmas Makes Me Think, Illustrated by Chandra Cox, Lee & Low Books, 2001, ISBN 9781584300243
Love to Langston, Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, Lee & Low Books, 2002, ISBN 9781584300410
Letters to Santa from Kids who Never Got a Response, Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, Just Us Books Incorporated, 2004, ISBN 9780940975750
I and I, Bob Marley, Illustrated by Jesse Joshua Watson, Lee & Low Books, Incorporated, 2009, ISBN 9781600602573
The President Looks Like Me & Other Poems, Just Us Books, 2013, ISBN 9781933491943
Poetry
Emerge & See, Whirlwind Press, 1991, ISBN 9780922827053
No Noose Is Good Noose, Writers and Readers Pub., 1996, ISBN 9780863161094
Sermons from the Smell of a Carcass Condemned to Begging, Long Shot Productions, 1998, ISBN 9780965473828
Committed to Breathing, Third World Press, 2003, ISBN 9780883782477
My Old Man Was Always on the Lam, New York Quarterly Books, 2011, ISBN 9781935520368
Broke on Ice, Willow Books, 2011, ISBN 9780984621217
An Onion of Wars, Third World Press, 2012, ISBN 9780883783306
Broke Baroque, 2Leaf Press, 2013, ISBN 9780988476356
Editor
Sam E. Anderson, Tony Medina, ed. In Defense of Mumia, Writers and Readers Pub., 1996, ISBN 9780863160998
Tony Medina, Louis Reyes Rivera, ed. Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Random House/Three Rivers Press, 2002, ISBN 0609808400
Tony Medina, Samiya A. Bashir, Quraysh Ali Lansana, ed. Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Black Literature and Art, Third World Press, 2001, ISBN 9780883782392
