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A Conversation with Quenton Baker
Interviewed by Dujie Tahat, Fall 2018 · Seattle, WA
Quenton Baker is a poet, educator, and Cave Canem fellow. His work has appeared in Jubilat, Vinyl, Apogee, Poetry Northwest, Pinwheel, and Cura, as well as in the anthologies Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters and It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop. A 2017 Jack Straw Fellow and a former Made at Hugo House fellow, as well as the recipient of the 2016 James W. Ray Venture Project Award and the 2018 Arts Innovator Award from Artist Trust, Baker is the author of This Glittering Republic (Willow Books, 2016). He has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Southern Maine.
Interviewer
Let’s start from the beginning—did you grow up in the Northwest?
Baker
I did. I’m from Seattle, born and raised on Beacon Hill.
Interviewer
How has growing up in the Northwest has influenced your writing?
Baker
That’s an interesting question. I was at Cave Canem recently and I was talking with a friend there about the places I’d lived—Seattle. Portland, Maine. Portland, Oregon.
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