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Robert Lashley was a 2016 Artist Trust Fellow, Jack Straw Fellow and nominee for a Stranger Genius Award. In 2019, Entropy Magazine called The Homeboy Songs (his first collection of poems) one of the 25 most important books to come out of the Seattle area.
In the last quarter century, this Black poet was one of the most decorated in American literature.