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Essex Hemphill

Essex Hemphill
Essex Hemphill (1957–1995) was born in Chicago and raised in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the poetry collective Cinque, a frequent collaborator with the Emmy award-winning filmmaker Marlon Riggs, and the editor of the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men (1991). His collection Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry (1992) won the National Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual New Author Award.


John Keene on the Life and Literary Legacy of Essex Hemphill an Early Poetic Chronicler of Black Queer Life

In Praise of an Early Poetic Chronicler of Black Queer Life
March 7, 2025  By Essex Hemphill
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