Here are several excerpts from my eventual poet's website.
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Isaac's Bio (partial)
Isaac Black, an MFA graduate of Vermont College, has work published or forthcoming in journals like the Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Literary Magazine, Callaloo, Fjords Review, Poetry Quarterly, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Bop Dead City, Modern Poetry Quarterly Review, San Pedro River Review, Spillway, and Solstice (a 2017 & 2018) finalist for the Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry. Founder of a major college help organization, he's been awarded the Gwendolyn Brooks Literary Award for fiction and Broadside Press Award for poetry. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, he's also been a recipient of poetry fellowships from the New York State Creative Artists Service Program (CAPS) and New York Foundation of the Arts. Isaac's the author of the African American Student's College Guide (John Wiley & Sons).
Recent Recognition:
2020 Black History Month Finalist selection for the Columbia Journal.
Cutthroat Magazine -- Notified that I have won the major Joy Harjo Poetry Prize (2017). Special thanks to final judge Cornelius Eady.
Solstice Literary Magazine -- finalist for the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize (2017). Special thanks to final judge Afaa Michael Weaver.
Solstice Literary Magazine -- also a 2018 finalist. Thanks to judge Terrence Hayes. Solstice Editor Iain Haley Pollack forwarded my finalist selection for consideration and made another of my poems an Editor's Pick (see Solstice 2018 Contest Summer Edition).
Spillway -- Pushcart Prize nomination
Mobius: Journal of Social Change -- nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2016)
Star*line -- nominated for Best of the Net (2016)
"Book of Love," was a recent semi-finalist for the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize.
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Geisha Girl's Night Out
Best of the Net Nominee in Poetry in 2014
Bop Dead City (Interview)
Here's a card that announced my New York Foundation of the Arts fellowship in poetry, listing some of the greats who I shared an award with that year. So stay-tuned.
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NOTE:
By the end of 1985, I felt like my poems/work were peaking. Great things were happening. I then dissappeared from the poetry scene. I am presently working on a self-interview to tell you my story. Just one reason for becoming a "lost poet" was that I founded a major 501c college help organization, wrote the African American Student's College Guide (John Wiley and Sons), and helped thousands of young people navigate the college admissions process.
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