Quraysh Ali Lansana
Author of twenty books in poetry, nonfiction and children’s literature; journalist teaching, University of Tulsa and Oklahoma State University-Tulsa; executive producer, KOSU/NPR’s Focus: Black Oklahoma.Author of twenty books in poetry, nonfiction and children’s literature; journalist teaching, University of Tulsa and Oklahoma State University-Tulsa; executive producer, KOSU/NPR’s Focus: Black Oklahoma.
Author of twenty books in poetry, nonfiction and children’s literature. His collections of poems include; “Opal’s Greenwood Oasis, the skin of dreams: new and collected poems, 1995-2018” “The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop” and “The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience & Change Agent” An Emmy Award and duPont-Columbia Award winning journalist he teaches at the University of Tulsa and Oklahoma State University-Tulsa. Executive producer of KOSU/NPR’s Focus: Black Oklahoma.