Lamont B. Steptoe:
CLASS OF 1967
Peabody High SchoolClass of 1967
Pittsburgh, PA
Lamont B.'s Story
Lamont B. is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is single. His schools include Peabody High School. He works(ed) at Mighty Writers.
Music Lamont B. likes includes Schematic, Taina Asili, Daniel Collins. Movies he likes include Why I Write: The Twin Poets.
More about Lamont B.:"I am a poet, photographer and publisher. I have been writing since i was ten years old. I'm a Vietnam Veteran and served with the 25th Infantry Division in South Vietnam station at Cu Chi. I was a Scout Dog Handler and left the military with the rank of Sergeant. I suffer with PTSD as a result of my service and have been retired since 1995. I am also a father who has an adult daughter. I have published twelve collections of my own poetry including Mad Minute, Dusty Road, Uncle's South China Sea Blue Nightmare, In the Kitchens of the Masters, A Long Movie of Shadows, Crowns & Halos, and Oracular Rumblings & Stiltwalking. I have published and edited three collections of the poetry of the late South African Poet, Dennis Brutus and edited two which include Remembering and leafdrift. In...Expand for more
2005, I won an American Book Award for A Long Movie of Shadows. In 2006, I was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and inducted into the International Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent by the Gwendolyn Brooks Center at Chicago State University. Other awards include: A Kuntu Writers Lifetime Achievement Award (2002) for Writing for Eternity, two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships and two AfricaNet work awards for Mad Minute and American Mourning/Morning. I have been published in over one hundred anthologies including Oxford University Press Anthology of African American Literature, Longman/Penguin anthology of African American literature edited by Keith Gilyard, 100 Best African American Poems edited by Nikki Giovanni and Working Hands edited by M.L.Liebler,Bum Rush the Page,edited by Tony Medina and Luis Reyes Rivera, Furious Flower: From the Black Arts Movement to the Present edited by JoAnne Gabin, ALOUD:Poetry of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe edited by Miguel Algarin and Bob Holman, Spirit & Flame edited by Keith Gilyard to name a few.".
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