Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia is the author of What Do The Evergreens Know of Pining, Yawning on the Sands, This Sentimental Education and Enter the After-Garde.  He was raised in Brooklyn, NY and has a degree Linguistics.  He was a cook for over a decade and has studied several living and dead languages.  His work has appeared in BlazeVOX, ditch, Eccolinguistics, Caliban Online, Ron Silliman’s Blog and many others. Currently, he works overnights putting boxes on shelves and spends his days writing, reading and attempting to translate poetry for an upcoming book.  He also edits and writes for  kjpgarcia.wordpress.com and altpoetics.wordpress.com.