Randall Horton

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Randall Horton


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Randall Horton is the author of a previous memoir and several books of poetry, including Pitch Dark Anarchy: Poems (TriQuarterly Books, 2013) and The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street. In 2019 he served as poet-in-residence for the Civil Rights Corps in Washington, DC, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to challenging systemic injustice in the American legal system. The recipient of numerous awards, including the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea González Poetry, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and a Right to Return Fellowship from the Soze Foundation, he currently sits on the Advisory Board of PEN America’s PEN Prison Writing Program. He is a professor of English at the University of New Haven.

Average rating: 4.32 · 237 ratings · 39 reviews · 27 distinct worksSimilar authors
Black Bone: 25 Years of the...

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Hook: A Memoir

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{#289-128}: Poems

4.09 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions
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Pitch Dark Anarchy

3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
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The Definition of Place

4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2006
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Dead Weight: A Memoir in Es...

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Fingernails Across the Chal...

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The Lingua Franca of Ninth ...

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Cultural memory and the bla...

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Cave Canem Anthology XIII

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“We script our lives on reaction rather than action, meaning daily life is always in response to, or a reply to, a command or demand. The world uses us in that way...The world does this--holds us down.”
Randall Horton, Hook: A Memoir

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