Charlie R. Braxton

CHARLIE R. BRAXTON is a poet, playwright and journalist born in McComb, Mississippi. He has published two volumes of poetry, Cinders Rekindled (2013), and Ascension from the Ashes (1991). His poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals, including, The Black Nation, Black American Literature Forum, Cutbanks, Drumvoices Review, Eyeball Literary Magazine, Shout Out UK, The San Fernando Poetry Journal, and The Transnational. Braxton’s work has also appeared in the anthologies The African World in Dialogue: An Appeal to Action! (2016), Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature & Art (2002), Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature (2000), Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry (1996), and In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers (1992). He studied journalism and creative writing at Jackson State University.