michael Warr is the author of We Are All the Black Boy (Tia Chucha, 1990) and a co-editor of Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago's Guild Complex (Tia Chucha, 1999). A performing and collaborative poet, his poems have been dramatized on stage, depicted on canvas, and set to original music compositions. He is the recipient of many honors and awards including the Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship for Poetry. He is principal at Warr Consulting and lives in San Francisco, California.