Tony Medina (poet)

Tony Medina is an American poet and professor at Howard University.^[1] He won the 2010 Patterson prize.^[2]

Life

He was born in the South Bronx. He grew up in Throgs Neck. He graduated from Binghamton University, State University of New York.^[3]

In 2013, he read at the Schomburg Center.^[4] Tony Medina was awarded the Langston Hughes Society Award (2013)from the College Language Association, as well as the first African Voices Literary Award (2013).

Works

For Young Readers

• 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

Tony Medina, ed. Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky, Jacar Press, 2016.

• 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

References

1. http://www.pw.org/content/tony_medina_1
2. http://phatitude.org/2010/06/medina-paterson-prize/
3. http://aalbc.com/authors/tony.htm
4. http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2013/jun/21/african-voices-honors-poet-tony-medina/

External links

• official website
• "Author Chat with Tony Medina". New York Public Library.
• "Tony Medina speaks with Truth Thomas". LittlePatuxentVideo.
• "Tony Medina". The Brown Bookshelf.
• "Interview with poet, Dr. Tony Medina". DuEwa Frazier.
• http://www.beltwaypoetry.com/poetry/poets/names/medina-tony/