Lamont B. Steptoe

American poet (born 1949)

Poet
photographer
publisher

Alma materTemple UniversityNotable awardsAmerican 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.^[1] He was a Vietnam veteran, and founder of Whirlwind Press.^[2]^[3]

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

"Update on the Disembodied", Longshot Vol 22
Kitchens of the Master. Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books. 1997. ISBN 978-1-877968-14-3.
Mad Minute, Whirlwind Press, 1993
Uncle's South Sea China Blue Nightmare. Plan B Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-9728312-1-5.
Cat Fish and Neckbone Jazz
Dusty Road. Whirlwind Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-922827-17-6.
American Morning/Mourning. Whirlwind Press. 1990. ISBN 0-922827-01-X.
Common Salt
Trinkets and Beads
Crimson river: poems , Slash & Burn, 1984

References

^ "Steptoe Uncles 2". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
^ "Short Persons Support: Who's Who of Short People : Biography : Lamont B. Steptoe". Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
^ "Lamont Steptoe".