Mervyn Seivwright Member Member since 2018

Writes poetry craft for humane growth.

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Mervyn Seivwright writes to balance social consciousness & poetry craft for humane growth. He’s a nomad from a Jamaican family, born in London, England, and left for America at age 10, now residing in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Performance poetry highlights include events in 9 countries, featuring at The Jazz Café, & finalist at the first UK’s Word-for-Word National Poetry Slam. He’s a Spalding University MFA Alum and has appeared in AGNI, American Journal of Poetry, Salamander Magazine, African American Review, Poetry-dot-Online, & 97 other journals across 15 countries. He’s the Caribbean Writer 2024 Marvin E. Williams Literary Prize winner, the Poetry International 2023 C. P. Cavafy Prize Finalist, CutBank Literary Journal Annual Genre Contest Finalist, the 2020 Lucy Terry Prince Prize Second Runner-Up Judged by Major Jackson & a 2021/2023 Pushcart Nominee. His collection “Stick, Hook, and a Pile of Yarn” is available through Broken Sleep Books.

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