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Calvin Forbes [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois US
Email: 
cforbes777@msn.com
Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Newark
Prizes won: 

Fellowship Award, Poetry, Illinois Arts Council, 1998; Fellowship Award, Poetry, District of Columbia Arts Commission, 1986, 1987; Fellowship Award, Poetry, National Endowment for the Arts, 1982; Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, 1974-75 (Denmark International Exchange of Scholars); Residency at Yaddo, summers, 1976, 77, 80 and 83; Fellowship in Poetry, Breadloaf Writer’s Conference, 1973

Identifies as: 
African American
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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