:Edwin Bodney

{{Short description|American poet}}

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Edwin Bodney is an American slam poet based in Los Angeles and author of the book A Study of Hands (Not A Cult Press).{{Cite web|url=http://notacult.media/author/edwin-bodney/|title=Edwin Bodney, Author at Not a Cult|last=Bodney|first=Edwin|website=Not a Cult|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-26}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g7MBvgAACAAJ|title=A Study of Hands|last=Bodney|first=Edwin|date=2016-12-30|publisher=NOT A CULT|isbn=9781945649011|language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=ABADSIDIS |first1=SAVAS |title=Writer Edwin Bodney Takes Aim at Gay Racism |journal=Advocate |date=October 2018 |issue=1099 |pages=60–61 |url=https://www.advocate.com/youth/2018/9/24/writer-edwin-bodney-takes-aim-gay-racism |access-date=11 May 2019 |issn=0001-8996}} He is one of the hosts of Da Poetry Lounge.{{Cite web|url=http://wordsdance.com/category/list/|title=List|publisher=Words Dance Publishing|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-26}}{{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Javon |title=Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities |date=2017 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=9780813580036 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FG8kDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Edwin+Bodney%22&pg=PT51 |access-date=11 May 2019}}

Various of Bodney's poems have been published by Button Poetry. He is the author and performer of the works: "Good Morning: A Story of Flight in the Making", and "When a boy tells you he loves you."{{Cite web|url=https://www.pw.org/category/theater_video_tags/edwin_bodney|title=Edwin Bodney|website=Poets & Writers|language=en|access-date=2019-02-26}}{{Cite web|url=http://expositionreview.com/issues/vol-iii-orbit/an-interview-with-edwin-bodney/|title=An Interview with Edwin Bodney|website=Exposition Review|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-26}}