Lamont B. Steptoe
{{short description|American poet (born 1949)}}
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|name=Lamont B. Steptoe
|birth_date={{birth year and age|1949}}
|birth_place=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
|occupation={{flatlist|
- Poet
- photographer
- publisher
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|alma_mater=Temple University
|awards=American Book Award (2005)
}}
Lamont B. Steptoe (born 1949 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American poet, photographer and publisher. Steptoe edited and published three collections of the late South African poet and activist, Dennis Brutus, under Whirlwind Press.
Life
Steptoe was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Temple University.{{cite web |url=http://www.planbpress.com/steptoeuncles2.html |title= Steptoe Uncles 2 |accessdate=2011-01-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715091231/http://www.planbpress.com/steptoeuncles2.html |archivedate=2011-07-15 }} He was a Vietnam veteran, and founder of Whirlwind Press.{{Cite web |url=http://www.shortsupport.org/cgi-bin/whowho_bio.cgi?seq=441&orderby=name&direction= |title=Short Persons Support: Who's Who of Short People : Biography : Lamont B. Steptoe |access-date=2011-01-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929090425/http://www.shortsupport.org/cgi-bin/whowho_bio.cgi?seq=441&orderby=name&direction= |archive-date=2011-09-29 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.washingtonart.com/beltway/steptoe.html|title = Lamont Steptoe}}
Awards
- 2005 American Book Award
- 1999 Literary Fellow for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
- 2002 Kuntu Writers Workshop Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry, from founders Rob Penny and August Wilson
- 2014 Ambassador of the Republic of Užupis
Works
- [http://www.longshot.org/ls22/lamontbsteptoe.htm "Update on the Disembodied"], Longshot Vol 22
- {{cite book| title=Kitchens of the Master| year= 1997| publisher= Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books| isbn= 978-1-877968-14-3 }}
- Mad Minute, Whirlwind Press, 1993
- {{cite book| title=Uncle's South Sea China Blue Nightmare| publisher= Plan B Press| year= 2003| isbn= 978-0-9728312-1-5 }}
- Cat Fish and Neckbone Jazz
- {{cite book| title=Dusty Road| publisher=Whirlwind Press| year= 1995| isbn= 978-0-922827-17-6 }}
- {{cite book| title=American Morning/Mourning| publisher=Whirlwind Press| year= 1990| isbn= 0-922827-01-X }}
- Common Salt
- Trinkets and Beads
- Crimson river: poems , Slash & Burn, 1984
References
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External links
- [http://mark.stosberg.com/tilt-a-whirl/tour/steptoe.html "Interview with Lamont Steptoe", Tilt-a-Whirl, Jordan Green]
- [http://www.exit50.com/?p=75 "Lamont B. Steptoe", Exit 50, June 30, 2005]
- [http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2009/brutus261209.html]
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Category:Writers from Pittsburgh
Category:United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War