Essex HemphillEssex Hemphill was a poet, editor, activist, and in 1993, a visiting scholar at The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities. His work has appeared in the anthologies In the Life (1986), Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Timem> (1986), and Life Sentences: Writers, Artists and AIDS (1993), as well as several newspapers and journals including Obsidian, Black Scholar, Callaloo, Painted Bride Quarterly, Essence, and more. His work was also featured in the documentaries Tongues Untied and Looking for Langston. Hemphill edited BROTHER TO BROTHER: NEW WRITINGS BY BLACK GAY MEN (RedBone Press, 2007), which won a Lambda Literary Award. He's also the author of Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry (1992), which won the National Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual New Author Award, and two chapbooks: Earth Life (1985) and Conditions (1986). In 1994 he died from complications related to AIDS. Read More Read Less