Poet and founder of theDialogue Arts Project, Adam Falkner, joins the Back Porch

Adam Falkner is the Founder and Executive Director of the Dialogue Arts Project and a doctoral student in English Education at Columbia University Teachers College. His work has recently appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Thrush Poetry Journal, Anti-and elsewhere, and has been twice-nominated for a Puschart Prize.Adam has toured the United States as a featured artist, speaker and trainer at hundreds of colleges and universities, and was the featured performer at President Obama’s Grassroots Ball at the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. His work has been featured on HBO, BET, Michigan and New York Public Radio, in Time Out New York, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He is currently an instructor of English Education at Columbia University Teachers College, and a curriculum consultant for the Academy for Young Writers in Brooklyn. www.adamfalknerarts.com I www.dialogueartsproject.com