Biography
Author, Poet, Professor
Michael Langford Whitlow’s most recent publications include Ferris Wheels -- a Collection of Poetry (Eber & Wein 2018) and Concrete Fields also a Collection of Poetry (Eber & Wein 2015).
Prior to that, he was featured in the International Who’s Who in Poetry in 2016, 2014,and 2012,as well as a two-time co-winner of the Academy of American Poets Henri Coulette Memorial Award.
His latest book: Under My (Black) Skin — A Memoir on Race & Social Injustice written as a collection of essays, is represented by the Kathryn Green Literary Agency in New York, NY.
Books / Poems
Under My (Black) Skin
Ignited by the unjust murder of George Floyd, his latest book is a collection of essays about his experience as a Black man growing up and living in a racially divided America. His reflections and conversations about grief, remorse, privilege, humility, anger, and his own Black life, is at the same time a universal conversation about how we can get through to our humanity.
This book is yet unpublished, and is being represented by the Kathryn Green Literary Agency, New York, NY.
FERRIS WHEELS
His second published book of Poetry, Ferris Wheels, published in 2018, is a search for truth through observations and questions: where interested others might have their own truthful conversations with themselves as they ask those questions that lie just below the surface of what often goes unspoken.
Publisher: Eber & Wein Publishing (January 29, 2018)
Language: English
Paperback: 80 pages
ISBN-10: 1608806170
ISBN-13: 978-1608806171
CONCRETE fields
Michael Langford Whitlow’s first book of poetry begins in the middle. Born a middle child of three, this collection of poems uses this middle ground as a center to connect the extreme edges both above and below him in order to make sense of the world by hearing, listening, understanding, and connecting to both places. These impressions are like flowers growing from concrete fields. Growing not in spite of the struggles of being in the middle, but rather, because of them.
Publisher: Eber & Wein Publishing (September 29, 2015)
Language: English
Paperback: 88 pages
ISBN-10: 1608804607
ISBN-13: 978-1608804603