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Timothy Prolific Edwaujonte (formerly Veit Jones) is a poet, writer, educator, genealogist, healer, and organizer. In the continuum of the Black Arts Movement, Edwaujonte synthesizes ancestral traditions, creative practice, and Hip-Hop culture as an Afro-Indigenous folkloric praxis.He has been a featured speaker at a diverse variety of institutions, ranging from Cornell University to Rikers Island to STooPS in Bed-Stuy. He has been published in African Voices, Voicemail Poems, The Inquisitive Eater, 12th Street, the Dancing While Black 2012-2018 Community Syllabus, the graphic novel Gunplay, the Penmanship Book anthology 30/30 Vol. 2, The Ferguson Moment, and YRB Magazine. Through his former publishing company, Andre Maurice Press/Indelible Books, he edited and released Blackout Arts Collective's "One Mic: A Lyrics on Lockdown Anthology" and Peuo Tuy's "Khmer Girl." Tim was a Riggio Fellow at The New School, and is a graduate fellow at The Watering Hole. He is the author of "Prolific," "Musaic: 40 Days, 40 Nights," and "Ofrenda para las ancestras." Timothy is from Uniondale (Long Island), and lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, New York.
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