Poetry collection by Quenton Baker. Baker is a poet and educator from Seattle. His current focus is the fact of blackness in American society. His work has appeared in
Vinyl, Apogee, Poetry Northwest, The James Franco Review,
Cura
and in the anthologies
Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters
and
It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop
. Baker has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Southern Maine and is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He is a 2015-2016 Made at Hugo House fellow and the recipient of the 2016 James W. Ray Venture Project Award. He is also the author of the chapbook
Diglossic in the Second America
from Punch Press.
This Glittering Republic
is his first full-length collection.