Afaa M. Weaver

Afaa Michael Weaver, formerly known as Michael S. Weaver, is an American poet, short-story writer, and editor. He is the author of numerous poetry collections, and his honors include a Fulbright Scholarship and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pew Foundation, and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He served as the Director of the Writing Intensive at The Frost Place.He has received the Wallace Stevens Award and is a Chancellor at the Academy of American Poets https://poets.org/poet/afaa-michael-weaver

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