Jaamil Olawale Kosoko
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, poet, choreographer, and performance artist, is the artistic director of The KOSOKO PERFORMANCE GROUP, an interdisciplinary ensemble of dancers, musicians, visual design artists. Kosoko has performed in the choreographic works of various artists and companies including Terry Creach, Lisa Kraus, Kate Watson-Wallace, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Headlong Dance Theater, Leah Stein Dance Company, Emergent Improvisation Ensemble, and, Faustin Linyekula and Les Studios Kabako (The Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa). Kosoko has been published in The American Poetry Review, The Dunes Review, The Interlochen Review, Silo Literary and Visual Arts Magazine, among other presses. Currently, he reads, performs and guest lectures throughout the United States. His book Animal in Cyberspace is available for purchase online at www.KOSOKOPERFORMANCE.org.