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When Roberto F. Santiago (MFA, ‘12) met Mark Labowskie (MFA, ‘13) for the first time, he was immediately intrigued. “I was just so interested in everything he was saying, but I didn’t really know why.”
Labowskie’s first recollection of Santiago is a bit different. “We were all walking back to Newark Penn Station and there was this guy talking about how he’d just moved into a new place in Harlem, and how it was so great to finally be living in the ‘real’ New York.” He laughs. “I was living in Brooklyn, and I was very offended by that.” He adds, “It was bickering at first sight. Which is a kind of precursor to love sometimes.”
Cyrus Armajani teaches reading and creating writing to youth who are incarcerated. He is a Jefferson Award recipient for his literacy work in the juvenile justice system and a Pushcart Prize nominee.
Benefits of Doubt (Nomadic Press, 2016) was his first book. Armajani is Iranian-American and lives in Oakland, California, with his wife and two sons. Poems by Cyrus Armajani