Roxanna Bennett Micro-interview POEMS The Trick Featuring this poet Lesson PlanDisability/ Sick Poetics Publications Alexis Pauline Gumbs Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a poet, independent scholar and activist, as well as a self-described "Queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love… William Blake Painter and poet William Blake (1757-1827) was born in London, England and made his living as an engraver and an illustrator. Blake experienced… Wayde Compton Wayde Compton is the author of six books and the editor of two literary anthologies. His collection of short stories, The Outer Harbour,…