J. Otis Powell‽, ca. 2014. Photograph by Eric Lorberer.

J. Otis Powell‽

J. Otis Powell‽, ca. 2014. Photograph by Eric Lorberer.

J. Otis Powell‽, ca. 2014. Photograph by Eric Lorberer.

J. Otis Powell‽

J. Otis Powell‽, ca. 2014. Photograph by Eric Lorberer.

J. Otis Powell‽, ca. 2014. Photograph by Eric Lorberer.

J. Otis Powell‽

J. Otis Powell‽, ca. 2014. Photograph by Eric Lorberer.

Cover art for Waiting for a Spaceship, by J. Otis Powell‽ (Spout Press, 2017).

Waiting for a Spaceship

Cover art for Waiting for a Spaceship, by J. Otis Powell‽ (Spout Press, 2017).

Cover art for Pieces of Sky, by J. Otis Powell‽ (Rain Taxi, 2014).

Pieces of Sky

Cover art for Pieces of Sky, by J. Otis Powell‽ (Rain Taxi, 2014).

Cover art for My Tongue has No Bone, by J. Otis Powell‽ (Porter Publishing, 2001).

My Tongue has No Bone

Cover art for My Tongue has No Bone, by J. Otis Powell‽ (Porter Publishing, 2001).

Powell‽, J. Otis (1955–2017)

James Otis Powell (a.k.a. J. Otis Powell‽) was an influential Minnesota-based American spoken word poet. He was the founding producer of the award-winning Write On Radio! show at KFAI-FM in Minneapolis, an advisor for the Minnesota Spoken Word Association, a curator for Intermedia Arts, and a program director for the Loft Literary Center. He was also the recipient of numerous awards, including the Loft Creative Nonfiction Award, Jerome Foundation mid-career-artists grants, a Jerome Foundation travel-and-study grant, the Intermedia Arts Interdisciplinary McKnight fellowship, and the 2017 Sally Award at the Ordway Theater. The MN Spoken Word Association awarded Powell‽ its Urban Griot Innovator Award and inducted him into the MN Spoken Word Association Hall of Fame in 2009.

Cabinet photograph of two male musicians, ca. 1905. Photo by Shepherd Photo Company.

Two musicians

Cabinet photograph of two male musicians, ca. 1905. Photo by Shepherd Photo Company.

Group photograph of the Minnesota state legislature, 1903. Photo by Harry Shepherd.

The Minnesota state legislature of 1903.

Group photograph of the Minnesota state legislature, 1903. Photo by Harry Shepherd.

Harry Shepherd, 1900. Photo from The Appeal, February 3, 1900.

Harry Shepherd

Harry Shepherd, 1900. Photo from The Appeal, February 3, 1900.

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