Kupenda

Review I found the poems relevant and easy to grasp meaning and truth from. -- Lori Bryant-Woolridge Product Description Poetry. It had to come to Kwame and KUPENDA. It had to come to Love Poems by a revolutionary brother whose heart is tied to his daughter and the woman he loves -- Nikki Giovanni. Alexander is a soldier of love. He writes so our hearts may beat and never be broken. Of course there will always be the blues but for now, Kupenda, baby. Kupenda! -- E. Ethelbert Miller. About the Author As a poet, stage director, producer, editor and publisher, Kwame Alexander is a pivotal figure in the current renaissance of Black literature and performance. The CEO of BlackWords, Inc., Kwame holds a BA Degree in Psychology, English and Black Studies from Virginia Tech. Alexander has written two screenplays and five stageplays, including the recently produced The Seventh Son, a two act play about the life and death of Tupac Shakur. Kwame is the author/editor of four books of poetry including: Just Us: Poems and counterpoems 1986-1995, and 360 A Revolution of Black Poets (1998, co-edited by Kalamu ya Salaam). He is also the co-editor of Tough Love (1996), a collection of essays and poems from 26 writers on the life and death of Tupac Shakur. His poems have been anthologized in numerous publications including: Grandfathers (Henry Holt, 1999) edited by Nikki Giovanni; Catch the Fire: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Black Poetry (Riverhead/Putnam, 1998) edited by D-Knowledge, and Warpland (Chicago State University's Gwendolyn Brooks Center Literary Journal, 1997). He is currently working on several book projects, and a stageplay based on the Jesse B. Semple stories of Langston Hughes. Alexander has been featured in the Washington Post, The Source Magazine and on BET Tonite with Tavis Smiley. Kwame Alexander works and lives outside of Washington, DC with his wife. He is the proud father of Nandi Assata Alexander.