Throughout the Fall, Lang’s First-Year Writing Program is hosting a series of weekly lunches where faculty (and special guests) will present dynamic and interactive lessons in the craft of writing. Full dates to our weekly lessons are located here: Craft-Lesson Lunch Hub.

This week's lesson is on communication with Cheryl Boyce-Taylor.

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is an immigrant poet, teaching artist and curator. Born in Trinidad and raised in Queens, New York, she is the author of five collections of poetry. Her most recent collection is a verse memoir, Mama Phife Represents, about her son, Hip Hop Legend, Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest aka (Malik Taylor) It is a love letter from a poet and mother who suddenly loses her son to type 1 diabetes. It is a story of loss, love, and courage. Boyce-Taylor has been awarded The Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award and is a finalist for The Paterson Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The New York Times Book Review, and The Chicago Review of Books. She Earned an MFA in poetry from Stonecoast/The University of Southern Maine and a Masters degree in Social Work from Fordham university. Her newest collection of poetry titled: We Are Not Wearing Helmets will be published by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press in February 2022.