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Robert Earl Price      

Award Winning African American Poet, Playwright & Screenwriter

For over three decades, Robert Earl Price has amassed writing credits in fiction, drama and poetry. His imaginative work has drawn praise for its lyric attention to the 'mutual truths' mined from human interaction. His many awards include The Theater Communications Group/NEA Playwright's Residency, The American Film Institute's William Wyler award for screenwriting, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry and a Cultural Olympics commission for theater. Currently REP is artist in residence in the drama department at Washington College as well as coordinator for the annual Kent County Poetry Festival.

"Bloodlines," "Blood Elegy," "Blues Blood" and "Wise Blood" are the titles of his four volumes of poetry. His poems have appeared in scores of journals and magazines including most currently Drum Voices Revue and The Chattahoochee Review. He has performed hundreds of readings in places as diverse as Berlin, Havana and Johannesburg and is also an 'old school' denizen of the open mike and poetry slam scene. Price is the recipient of a Broadside Press Award, a Bronze Jubilee Award, and dozens of other prizes and notices for his poetry.

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