Glenn Dale, MD 20706
Phone 240 593-0568
E-mail hokeglover@yahoo.com

Hoke S. Glover III (Bro. Yao)
Objective To obtain a position working creating content centered on African American History and culture that draws from my knowledge of African American literature, bookselling, history, and culture.

Education

Professional Experience

Special Interest

Special Coursework

Publications

University of MD, College Park, MD M.F.A. in Poetry, May 1997
Bowie State University Bowie, MD B.A. in English, 1995

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Tenured Associate Professor, Bowie State University
2005-Present
Teaching in the English and Modern Languages Department English 101 and 102, Introduction to Create Writing, and higher level poetry courses. Create course syllabi, advising English Club, ordering library texts and creating literature based activities for campus (presentation of poets and other writers)

Developed methods to increase 102 students sense of Chinese culture and address particulars of demographic.

Member of English 102 Redesign Committee Fall 2010-Present
Reviewing and making changes to Collective Syllabi, choosing texts and developing methods to address students African-American English background

Developed method for matriculating students through the poetry program-creating manuscripts and sending them to graduate schools

Staff Instructor, University of MD, College Park
Spring 2001
Taught Introduction to African American Fiction and Poetry Workshop. Texts used were primarily contemporary texts focusing on the new African American literary “Renaissance”.
1993-2008
Co-Owner, Karibu Books, Hyattsville, MD.
 Founded the organization. Coordinated vending operations on the streets of D.C. and at Bowie State and Howard University. Book Buyer, Manager, Employer, Accountant, Operations Manager, Developer of Business Development Strategies. Experience in all aspects of maintaining a retail business. With partners Simba Sana and Karla Wilkerson-Glover built organization from $500 initial investment to six retail locations and 3.75 million dollars in sales.
• Published Brian Gilmore’s Jungle Nights and Soda Fountain Rags, a book length manuscript on Duke Ellington.
• Published DJ Renegade’s Libation Song, a spoken word CD backed by a local band made up of some of D.C.’s finest jazz musicians.

Study of Taoism and the Art of War for the past fifteen years. Study of the I-Ching intensively for the past five years. Running and Boxing for the past 20 years. Tai Chi for the past five years. Introductory study of Chinese for past two years.
Specialist in African-American Poetry, African American History, Contemporary African-American Books: commercial, literary and historical.
Coursework and study with spoken word artists Sekou Sundiata at the New School For Social Research, 1988-1990.

Internship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture cataloging African Diaspora Newspapers, 1989-1990.

Internship with Barry Peterson at MD recording interviews with living legend Blues Musicians Spring of 1997.

Taught teachers of English in China, Summer 2010 in a program sponsored by the Jiangsu Education Services for International Exchange (Jesie).

Callaloo Summer Writer’s Workshop Summer 2011-Participant

NEH Don’t’ Deny My Voice Summer Institute on African American Poetry Kansas University Summer 2013.- 3 Weeks-Participant
Anthology Contributions (Poems)
Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity, edited by Natasha Tarpley, Beacon Press, 1996. “Billie’s Blue” and “X.”
Fast Talk Full Volume: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, edited by Alan Spears. Gut Punch Press 1993. “A Man Who Smacks Congos.”
Soul Fires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence. Edited by Rohan Preston and Daniel Wideman. Penguin, 1996. “Some Days are Not as Lovely as Love,” Exile: Wondering What happened to All the Brothers” and “Brother #2.”
Dark Eros: Black Erotic Writings. Edited by Reginald Martin. St. Martin’s, 1997. “Thinkin’ Bout You.”
Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st. Century. edited by Ethelbert Miller. Black Classic Press, 2002. “Born,” Passing Through This House,” Soledad,” “The Science of Forgetting”
RoleCall: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Art and Literature. Edited by Bashir, Medina and Ali. Third World Press, 2002. “Let This Cover You When You Sleep.”
Poems Published in Journals and Magazines
African-American Review Vol. 33, No.1, 1999. “Her Face,” “For the Woman Wants Nothing.”
African-American Review Vol. 34, No. 4, Winter 2000. “WorkSong: For Mama.”
African-American Review Vol. 40, No. 2, Summer 2006. “ speak.”
African-American Review Vol 42: 2-3 Summer/Fall 2009. “rise and fall.”
African-American Review forthcoming “Stand,” “Last Time,” and “Radio” expected publication 2013
Beltway Quarterly Vol 4, No. 2 Fall 2001. “Outside the Church,” “Tijan,” “ Trains,” “Whoodunits”
Beltway Quarterly Vol 11, No. 4 Fall 2010. “What We Were Looking For in the Night.”
Crab Orchard Review Vol. 2, No. 2., 1997. “For Tupac,” Elders in the Choir Singing the Old Song Waiting for a New Day to Come” and “Lottery Tickets”
Crab Orchard Review Vol. 5, No. 2 Spring/Summer 2000. “Resurrect the Mouth of the Drum.”
Crab Orchard Review Vol. 11, No. 2 Summer/Fall 2006. “Shoeshiner’s Inheritance.”
Journal of Pan African Studies Vo. 4, No. 2 December 2010. “Questions,” “Alejandro,” “Some Other South To Sadden Me,” “They Make a Wall Against Armegeddon”
Mead Magazine (on-line journal) Vol 1 Spring 2011 “donny” “buttoning my shirt”
Mosaic Fall/Winter 1999 “The Fly God Sings Hip-Hop.”
Obsidian III Vol. 2, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2000. “Splurge,” “Marblenight” and “Go Forth and Speak the Gospel Get Your House in Order.”
Obisidian III, Vol. 6, No. 1 Spring/Summber 2005. “speaker,” “the art of fried fish in the house of my mother,” “truth commission,” “clouds.”
Smartish Pace No.14 2007 “City.” Finalist for 6th Annual Erskine J. Poetry Prize.
Essays
Tidal Basin Review Spring 2011. “ My Father Was Post Black Before Post Black.”
Tidal Basin Review Fall 2012 “My First Lessons in Black History and other Activist Tendencies”
Black Issues Book Review December 2006 “Notes of a Native Bookseller”
Reviews for Black Issues Book Review-Poetry 2003-2005
Recordings
Black Notes CD Project recorded “Down Low” 12 minute spoken word piece with ensemble of traditional African drummers, vocalists, bassist and guitarist.
Sunny Sumter’s CD Rites of Passage. Guests spoken word artist recorded “I Hear the Voice of the Long Cry.” Sunny Sumter local jazz vocalist’s third CD project.
Spectre Magazine Hip-Hop Issue June 2012 “Speaker”
Reviews
Reviewed Poetry Books for Black Issues Book Review from 2000-2001. Published five reviews on contemporary African-American poetry.

Exhibits

Five Poems presented Prince George’s African American Musuem Ulysses Marshall exhibit Paper Dolls November 2012-February 2012

Workshops Hurston Wright Workshop with Van Jordan, Summer 2009
Callaloo Writer’s Workshop with Gregory Pardlo and Vivee Franciss, Summer 2011
Professional Memberships

Board Member Hurston-Wright Foundation 2000-2006. Served as Treasurer from 2004-2006. The Hurston-Wright Organization founded by Marita Golden is dedicated to supporting and promoting the work of writers of African Descent. The organization sponsors a yearly writing workshop and in 2002 launched the Legacy Award-an independent award for African American Writers of Distinction.
Member of the American Bookseller’s Association from 1995-2006.
Member of Washington D.C.’s Poetry Scene for twenty years.
Community Activities Volunteer at Capitol Heights Elementary from March 2003- June 2005
Performance Texas A&M University (poet and drummer), 2001
Frequently reads and performs for colleges literature classes and schools and schools for all ages
Frequently speaks on African American business and the power of literature
Chose Dwayne Betts, author of A Question of Freedom, as Karibu’s first Poet in Residence and assisted in building and developing the position.
Served Maryland Arts Council as Reviewer for Touring Artist Roster 2009-2010.
Currently serving as review panelist for Maryland Arts Council Literary Organizations. 2012-2013
Judge for Hurston-Wright Poetry Legacy Award 2011-2012.
Commencement Speaker for Frederick Douglass Senior High School Class of 2009.
Collaboration with Dancer Reggie Glass a spoken word performer and dancer 2003-2010.
Keynote Speaker for College English Association Mid-Atlantic Group March 5, 2011. Presentation Title “On the Fortunes and Misfortunes of Being a Poet.”
Panel Baltimore Book Festival 2006 on state of African American Poet
Reader for Smartish Pace Baltimore Book Festival 2012
Launch of Free Black Space with Panel Discussion in conjunction with Prince George’s County African American Museum’s exhibit on Black Townships, January 2012
University Service Grade Appeals Committee 2006-Present
Assisted in organizing Tai Chi class Fall 2011- Present
Information Literacy Committee Fall 2009-Spring 2010
Workshop on enhacing student reading abilities Fall 2011
Presentation on Trip to China Fall 2010 recommendations for University Committee in regards to China
Authors: Katy Richey, Venus Thrash, Olu Butterfly, Alan King, Tony Medina, Dwayne Betts, DJ Renegade and others presented poetry readings and or workshops 2006-2012
Ellington Students visited Bowie in 2006-2007
358 visit to Ellington to read with students Fall 2012

Awards received Bowie State University English Award, 1994
Karibu Books BlackBoard Bookseller of the Year 1998
Selected as one of Prince George’s Community College’s Fabulous Forty Alumni 2001
Karibu Books Nominated PW Bookseller of the Year 2003
Mid-Atlantic Writers Association Distinguished Service Award 2002