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Cherryl T. Cooley (Cherryl Floyd-Miller)

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in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, The United States

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Cherryl Floyd-Miller (Cherryl T. Cooley) is a poet, playwright and fiber artist. She has written two full-length volumes of poems: Utterance: A Museology of Kin and Exquisite Heats. Her chapbook Chops won an AIGA gold SEED Award and is housed in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection. Her work has been published in Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, Poemeleon, Terminus and other literary journals. One of her poems, "Percussion" was featured by The Lincoln Center and accompanied a concert by the Sō Percussion quartet in New York, Cherryl has held writing fellowships or received grants from Poets & Writers, Inc., Idyllwild Summer in Poetry, Cave Canem, the Vermont Studio Center, Caldera and the Indiana Arts Commission. She lives and works ...more

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	Exquisite Heats 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world.”
― James Baldwin

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