Will The Poet
Will The Poet
Will The Poet Will The Poet Will The PoetPoet, Educator, Performance Artist
About Will The Poet
Will Langford, a Detroit native, is a poet, teaching artist, and Fulbright scholar. He divides his energy between education and community development projects in his hometown, East Lansing, and East Africa. Will is a doctoral student in Curriculum Instruction and Teacher Education at Michigan State University.
Will Langford is the 2017 Motown Mic Spoken Word Artist of the Year. As a performance artist, Will’s poetry has garnered “Best of Show” in the American Advertising Awards, a Michigan Emmy Award, and the Ambrose Patullo Poetry Prize from Michigan State University, where Langford graduated with the distinction of “Most Outstanding Senior” as a recipient of the Richard Lee Featherstone Endowed Prize.
Will's art has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook, The Illanot Review PANK Magazine, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Work/6, Falling Hard, TIME Magazine Online, and 2 Bridges Review
Recent Poetry Highlights
Will recently debuted his original poem, "Pamoja" (As One) at the Michigan State University Breslin Events Center.
Learn more about "Pamoja" Here!