Darius Simpson

Darius Simpson is a New Afrikan writer, educator, farmer, and skilled living room dancer from Akron, Ohio. Much like the means of production, he believes poetry must be used for the positive social, political, and economic development of the majority of society. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and others. He is the author of Never Catch Me (Button Poetry, 2022). Simpson believes in the dissolution of empire and the total liberation of Africans and all oppressed people by any means available.