Toussaint St. Negritude

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Poet Laureate of Belfast, Maine, Toussaint St. Negritude conjures all crossroads of jazz, blues, folk, and collective liberation, via the back-road palette of his bass clarinet and the ample declarations of a voice well worth the view.

A west-coast native, Toussaint is a proud product of revolution-era San Francisco, having been raised and informed by the triumphs of every left-local movement from the Black Panthers, to Gay Rights, to the surrealist rites of Haiti.

Here on these art fertile shores of mid-coast Maine, Toussaint St. Negritude finds yet further voice and further harvest for all our declarations to come. As Poet Laureate of Belfast, Maine, Toussaint sponsors a myriad of poetry programing, from biweekly readings, to collaborative performances of local poets and other artists, to the creation of the upcoming journal of poetry Geezum Crow, to hosting the annual Belfast Poetry Festival.

Toussaint St. Negritude has been published and recorded broadly, and along with an active tour of performances, he has just published a new book of poems, Upheave, by Trenchant Fist Press, 2014.