Background
Then he entered the world of factory life alongside his father and uncles and remained a factory worker for fifteen years.
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Michael Afaa
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Born in Maryland, he studied two years at the University of Maryland. He graduated from Brown University on a fellowship, with an M.A, and Excelsior College with a Bachelor of Arts He taught at National Taiwan University and Taipei National University of the Arts as a Fulbright Scholar, and was a faculty member at the Cave Canem Foundation"s annual retreat. He also studied Chinese language at the Taipei Language Institute in Taiwan.
Career
He is the Director of the Writing Intensive at The Frost Place. He started 7th Son Press and Blind Alleys, a literary journal. In addition, he was the first to be named an elder of the Cave Canem Foundation.
He teaches at Simmons College, and is director of the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Center.
He is Chairman of the Simmons International Chinese Poetry Conference. Tess Onwueme, the Nigerian playwright, gave him the Ibo name "Afaa," meaning "oracle," while Doctor Perng Ching-hsi has given him the Chinese name "Wei Yafeng." His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Callaloo.
2014 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
