Xavier Cavazos

Xavier Cavazos is a performance artist, grand slam champion of the NuYoRican Poets Cafe, and member of three national poetry slam teams. His previous collections are Barbarian at the Gate (The Poetry Society of America, 2014) and Diamnd Grove Slave Tree (Ice Cube Press, 2015). Cavazos is a senior poetry editor for Poetry Northwest, directs the Liberal Studies Program at Central Washington University, and serves on the board of trustees for Humanities Washington.