J. Otis Powell‽ is a member of the MN Spoken Word Association Hall of Fame, an Urban Griot Innovator Award winner, and a founding producer of the award-winning spoken word radio program, Write On Radio. His previous publications include: THEOLOGY (Traffic Street Press), My Tongue Has No Bone (Porter Publishing) and Pieces of Sky (Rain Taxi). He was co-editor of Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (published by the MN Historical Society).