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The 29-year-old CEO holds a BA Degree in Psychology, English and Black Studies from Virginia Tech. Where he studied for three years under the renowned poet Nikki Giovanni, and edited the student literary journal, Umoja.
Alexander is the Founder and CEO of BlackWords, Inc. an independent publishing house dedicated to providing publishing opportunities for the many talented literary voices of the Hip-Hop Generation.
The best selling BlackWords title, Tough Love, was the first published collection of essays and critical commentary on the life and death of slain "gangsta" rapper Tupac Shakur.
Kwame produces and hosts an annual celebration of Black Literature and Performance entitled We Real Cool. The three-year-old event has featured emerging musical acts such as Kenny Muhammad a.k.a. The Human Orchestra (As featured in a burger King commercial) and the freestyle Union; and writers, Haki R. Madhubuti, Marita Golden and Kalamu ya Salaam.
Alexander has written, directed and produced five screenplays: The Weight of being Black: For Brother's Who've Considered Suicide (producer, Gunston Arts Center, 1995), Jazz Jive Jam: The Life of Langston Hughes (Writer/Director/Producer, Gunston Arts Center, 1994), Chains & Images (Writer/Director/Producer, Carver Community Center, 1993), Ebony Images (Writer/Director, Norfolk Center Theater & Virginia Tech, 1990), and Self-Discovery 101: You Gotta Havit (Writer/Director, Virginia Tech, 1989). In 1988, Alexander was a participant in Theater Master Classes conducted by Douglas Turner Ward, Cicely Tyson and Woodie King. In 1984,Kwame starred in the Off-Broadway Musical, The Chosen, directed by Spike Lee's Aunt Consuela Lee Moorehead.
Kwame is the author of three books of poetry: Survival in Motion (1993), The flow: New Black Poetry in Motion (1994), and Just Us: Poems and counterpoems 1986-1995, which was awarded the 1996 international Black Book Award for Poetry. 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.
Kwame's poems have been anthologized in numerous publications including: Grandfathers (Henry Holt, 1999) edited by Nikki Giovanni, 360 A Revolution of Black Poets (BlackWords, 1998) edited by Kwame Alexander and Kalamu ya Salaam, 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). In addition, Alexander has been widely published and featured in newspapers and magazines including Vibe Magazine, Source Magazine, Amsterdam News, Sacramento Observer, Richmond-Times Dispatch, Chicago tribune, Poets and Writers Magazine, Dialogue Magazine, YSB Magazine, Norfolk Journal & Guide, Washington City Paper Baltimore Afro-American, QBR: The black Book review, Rap Pages and 4080 magazine.
Kwame Alexander works and lives outside of Washington, DC where he juggles all of these exciting projects and his seven-year-old daughter, Nandi Assata Alexander.
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