Conyus Calhoun

Conyus has been published in many major poetry anthologies over the last 40 years including:

DICES OR BLACK BONES: black voices of the seventies, edited by Adam David Miller, 1970, Houghton Mifflin. natural process : An Anthology of New Black Poetry, edited by Ted Wilentz and Tom Weatherly, 1970 Hill and Wang. New Black Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Afro-American Literature, edited by Abraham Chapman, 1972, New American Library. The Poetry Of Black America : An Anthology of the 20 th Century, edited by Arnold Adoff, 1973, Harper and Row. VIETNAM AND BLACK AMERICA : An Anthology of Protest and Resistance: edited by Clyde Taylor, 1973, Anchor Press/ Doubleday. One Eighty Five: An Anthology of San Francisco Poets, edited by Alix, 1973, Mongrel Press, UMBRA No.5: LATIN/SOUL POETRY ANTHOLOGY, edited by David Henderson and Victor Hernandez Cruz, 1974, The Society of UMBRA, Publishers. The American Poetry Anthology: Poets Under Forty, edited by Daniel Halpern, 1975, Avon Publishers. CALAFIA: The California Poetry Anthology, Project Director, Ishmael Reed, 1979, Y'Bird Books. THE GARDEN THRIVES: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry, edited by Clarence Major, 1996, Harper Collins. 100 Poets Against the WAR, edited by Todd Swift, 2003, SALT Publishing. He is the former Poetry Editor of The Black Scholar and the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, in 1981. He has traveled extensively throughout the United States and has journeyed to Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, Cuba, the Netherlands, and the Caribbean. He was born November 2, 1942 in Flint, Michigan, raised in Detroit and now lives in San Francisco, California.