The Hot L Poets Series, featuring James Arthur and Hoke S. Glover III

Canadian-American poet James Arthur is the author of The Suicide’s Son and Charms Against Lightning. His poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, and The London Review of Books. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to Northern Ireland, and a Visiting Fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford. Arthur lives in Baltimore, where he teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Hoke S. Glover III (Bro. Yao) is the author of Crazy as Hell: the Best Little Guide to Black History (W. W. Norton, 2024), co-authored with V. Efua Prince; Marching Towards Heaven (Africa World Press, 2020); and Inheritance (Willow Books, 2016). The core of his work is the wider arc of the documented record of African-American consciousness via the text and the contradictions that arise from the lack of African-American publishing infrastructure. Glover graduated from the Bowie State University English Department in 1994. While at Bowie he began selling books in the student center. This small vending operation grew to become Karibu Books, one of the Nation’s largest black bookstores from 1993-2008. In 2005, he returned to Bowie State University as a professor and is now the chair of the Department of Language, Literature & Cultural Studies.