Marlon Carey is a poet (published chapbooks: Giraffe Theory, Prolegomenon, and Lazarus) who has been a member of both the Boston Poetry Slam and Boston Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam Teams. He is also a proud member of the Providence-based poetry troupe Brother’s Keeper. Carey is also an educator, actor, communicator, and entertainer. Carey earned his BFA degree in creative writing at St. Andrews College in Laurinburg, North Carolina and is proud to be a New England poet, with nuff respect to his Jamaican immigrant roots.